I know the general rule of thumb is to only use miles for award tickets because you can get the most out of each mile, but I only "paid" $105 for my roundtrip ticket, which will earn me about 2500 mqms and 5000 miles, so it would be dumb to use miles for an award ticket. The way I see it with a family, is it's much more "valuable" for my family to spend a week at Disney for free (except the discounted airfare), than to use those 130K miles to fly to Timbuktu. It's money I would've spent anyways at Disney, that would've cost me about $2K, so I earned about $.015 per mile buy buying the hotel and park hopper passes with AA miles.