Originally Posted by DavidAL

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.

Originally Posted by sargenet

I find that hotel rooms are very competitive around the Disney area, so we never use our miles/points in that area. Also a great place to get a condo which is nice to have vs a hotel room.

We will use miles to fly. On American you might find a one way flight to Orlando for 25k for coach AND 25K for a first class mile saver. I think it is very hard to find mile saver on coach in the summer to Orlando. So if you are going to pay 25k might as well fly first class!

And if you do get a mile saver FC ticket on American you can fly non-stop and your luggage is also free!!

Sometimes we don't even use miles for roundtrip. We might buy a one way ticket and then use miles for the return....just depends on pricing!