Originally Posted by toddreg

I jumped on into the points game hard core about 2 years ago. We have taken several really nice vacations all on points. My wife even scored an incredible trip to Paris on a deal that worked out to be upwards of 8 cents per mile.

My wife wants to take our daughter to Munich and Berlin Germany, Belgium and a side trip to Austria. I can book the hotels without issue. I need pointers however on arranging airfare. I should mention the arsenal I am working with. I have about 1,100,000 SPG points, 400,000 Delta Skymiles, 220,000 AA miles and around 270,000 Ultimate reward points. We also live near Atlanta so that is the airport of departure.

Questions-

1-Can I book an award trip that stops for a few days in say Berlin and then continues to Munich and then on to Berlin and then back to ATL? I know they can possibly take the train between some cities. But is it possible to have layovers.

2- Alternatively they could fly into one city, use trains to move about and then depart home from another city, is this possible. This scenario does not involve intra continental trips.

3- From an initial peek it looks like Delta Business awards are in the 200,000- 300,000 points for each ticket which after only spending 100,000 to get to Paris looks to be to expensive and even though I got a bunch of points that is too steep a burn for me.

4- Pointers please on routing via Delta more cheaply.

5- Pointers for using my other points. One can spend literally hours messing around with possible scenarios and I am not trying to avoid the work involved, I am just trying to get some pointers and thoughts from you veterans.

We are 30 days out from the intended departure date and we are a bit flexible departing somewhere around the end of July early Aug.