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Nov 21, 2009 | 12:52 pm

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stupidzbu

Join Date: Apr 2003

Location: BOS .. but soon SFO

Programs: UA PLAT, TK GLD, Hilton Diamond, IC PLAT, SPG GLD, Marriott GLD

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Originally Posted by swag

I suspect that finding flights and hotel rooms using points/miles will be very hard to find for that trip.

I dont use miles for hotel rooms, so I have no idea.

Believe it or not, a lot of people don't want to go to South Africa. I was lucky enough to win 28 tickets to 7 games and hardly anyone wants to come .. as opposed to the 3 tickets I won for 2006 in germany and everyone wanted to come.

Winter + africa + 5-7 vaccines does not merit desire, even for the WC

You can get semi-decent flights from LA-JNB now for 90k

I am shooting for GRU-JNB for 60k but south african airlines hasn't opened reward seats yet (8 hr direct flight from GRU as opposed to 30-50 hour flight from LAX due to layover in lisbon!)

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