As for AA points and your trip to alaska....

Have you looked at booking the AA on Alaska Airlines? they have service to DFW, IAH, and SAT.

American code shares with Alaska such that if you flew through Seattle or Portland your flight to Anchorage would be operated by Alaska.

Not sure how it translates on American or Delta, but using AAlaska miles you can book a RT flight to ANC for 25K from SEA or PDX...not sure how it is elsewhere.

for some of the airlines you can book one way award travel tickets.

An alternate book flight to seattle or portland using other airline points then book on american to ANC.

As for the amount of time.

You need to give yourself 1 day each way for your flight. In Alaska you need to give yourself 4-10 days depending on what you wanted to do.

3-4 days for Seward, with 2 full days in Seward for tours.

For Denali you should try to be there for 3-4 fulldaysdays. visiting the park is a full daylong trip using the shuttle buses.

1 day ANC-sewards
2-3 days Seward
1-2 days travel from Seward to Denali
3-4 days Denali
1 day travel back to ANC
redeye back

If you are looking to do both look at it as a 8 day travel in Alaska with 2 days for travel or 10 days total.


As for Morocco trip...were it me I would look at doing 2-3 day in Lisbon and then 2-3 days in Barcelona.

As for the MR points...im assuming those are marriott rewards...i would have suggested you to specualte and booked a 4 night stay at a 30K-35K/night location before rates went up earlier this month. If I recall 4 nights pts stay means a 5th night free. Now some of the 35K hotels are now 40K