Juleoni

I thought I saved a good one in my bookmarks, but I can't find it anymore. Maybe somebody could help me. I think it cost $25-$50. People would compete against each other for the best travel itinerary and whoever you thought was the best one, won the money.

Mareinfinitus

I have just used Awardnexus for the first time, and it was really a great service! Easy to use, covers many carriers and best of all free! However if you need to make many searches or have a complex trip with many segments it seems you need to make a donation/subscription to get full site access.

Anyway, I found (segment by segment) a award trip within *A to use with my EB points, that I have tried to look for a long time: ARN-GIC! Which I finally found with Awardnexus through ARN-LHR-BOG-GIG...

wco81

My testimonial is that almost every award search service mentioned in this thread by new posters who only post positive reviews and post nowhere else are shady businesses with little credibility nor verifiable track records.

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Shenanigans

Having read through most of this thread I think I have an idea which services to try out but still have a question. I'm trying to provide advice to some friends that we'll be travelling with next September/October but am currently travelling in Europe and won't be able to assist when booking windows open up. As such, I'm considering a referral to a service.

I suspect that in this day of limited award availability in Business/First from North America to Europe that one might want to consider one way awards to snap up seats when they first become available and again on the back end. In the world of award booking services, does that double the fees associated with using them or are the fees based on round-trip awards?

Conversely, if my base premise is wrong, is it then advisable to wait until availability opens up for the inbound leg(s) to book roundtrip tickets?

Corganbr

How can they book the tix for you? Do you have to provide FF account information and password?

eccentricfusion

Book Your Award used AwardWallet - so any program you have in there, you can give them permission to book on your behalf. I'm not sure about other programs.

Dad to GO

I have an outbound flight to Europe already booked in February but I am having a really hard time trying to find the return flight. Does anyone know if these award booking sites will charge half price for only 1 way flights or are they all pretty much set in stone with pricing?

pkerr

You could always ask...

b8b

Hard to choose a booking service, but I'm wanting to try spreading the love and working with other talented individuals.

I may be dreaming here, but I have 500k AA miles I want to burn ASAP for a trip next summer (flexible on dates June and July 2016), ideally for my family of 4 with all in F or parents in F and kids in C. I am open to destinations, but I'd like to fit some aspirational products (Emirates F, Etihad Apartments, etc.) and aspirational destinations (never been to places like Bora Bora).

Anyone out there interested in helping me with this itinerary in exchange for your fee?

ukinny2000

AA miles will get you onto Etihad, but not Emirates. if you want to experience Etihad F on the A380 your best best is to do the LHR-AUH leg, which has a a good number of days availability with 2 spaces in June (I didn't check July) - you can check via their website - etihad.com/en/plan-and-book/book-redemption-flights/ anything listed with GuestSeat/GuestFirst is bookable with AA miles. 500K AA miles, whilst a good stash, may be enough for four people to go some places, but not all. Now, if you can leave the kids with the grandparents then I think you might have a very good chance

b8b

Thanks for the response. Good point. Yes, could potentially leave the lads at the grandparents.

BTW: I also have a few hundred thousand UR points that might be able to transfer into a useful partner, not sure... I haven't had the luxury of time enough to keep up with the game, though I wish I did (or could make a business out of it like the points bloggers, though I do feel they've might have made it so popular that the devaluations may have come on faster than they might have).

ukinny2000

With a few hundred K UR you can do a lot of stuff. The thing to remember is that getting there is only art of the cost - you also have hotels to worry about. If you're going to pay cash for the hotels (maybe because you want to go non-chain etc...) then you'll have more flight options to play with. If you want to use miles & points as much as possible, then it maybe that you will need your UR for the hotels. I would say that first and foremost reduce the variables, starting with figuring out exactly where you want to go and how long for - then it will make it easier for people to help you

Corganbr

I went to the Maldives in June, flew Etihad first in their Dreamliner. Both the flight and destination were amazing! Try www.awardchaser.com I think it's a new site, and cheaper than most

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