Greetings FlyerTalk. My wife and our three kids (one under 2 yrs) have time off from work here in Grand Cayman (GCM) from April 3 until April 12, 2015 and wanted to travel up to Whistler for some skiing.

Unfortunately this is over Easter weekend and one way tickets are running between 37.5 and 65 miles for flights to Vancouver, Seattle, Portland.

That would come out to roughly 300,000 for a week in Canada. We currently have 230,000 AA miles.

I can't seem to find anything that is reasonable and I have tried as many possible routings that I can think of. Since I am a Spanish teacher, I looked at flights from GCM to Lima on the same dates, and that would only cost us 120,000 miles for the entire family roundtrip!

I am avid reader of FlyerTalk posts, but never post. If anyone has any ideas and can help out, I would be very appreciative.

Thanks in advance.

John
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