Originally Posted by Dave Noble

Except in rare cases, there is no problem booking award nights in advance; if your plans change, can just cancel and get the points back. If you have the points to make the bookings, I would suggest it might be better to hold them now and cancel if not needed rather than rely on them still being available close to date

If there are some vagaries , then can make more than 1 booking per location to cover being out by a day and then cancel that extra booking ( just make life easy with 2 x 1 night booking rather than 1 x 2 night booking )

As far as booking goes, you can book awards for same day If they are available if you prefer