Originally Posted by
Thunderroad
Welcome to FT and congratulations!
One suggestion:
Chase Ultimate Rewards, Citi Thank You and Amex Membership Rewards points can all be converted into SQ miles on a one to one basis. In my limited experience, the conversion takes one or two days. All the cards that offer these points have sign-up or initial spending bonuses, though be especially careful re Chase in that they've put some recent restrictions on obtaining their cards. While SQ J is fantastic, SQ F suites are really a special experience worth trying to bag for your honeymoon.
And a question:
For when are you planning this trip? Trying to get all of the flights might work best if you have the points/miles a year in advance, though for the shorter hauls you could compromise with some reasonably priced economy flights on mainline or budget carriers.
Another factor re the timing is that the climate will vary a lot even within SE and East Asia. The best time to visit Thailand and the Philippines in terms of weather, for instance, is January and February. But that's the rainy season in Bali.
Anyway, if you let folks here know the approximate dates, they might be able to give you some good advice for the reasons I mention above.
So I think I answered your questions in the previous post! Lol
Yes I am planning This honeymoon for jan/feb 2017 so I'm trying to gather points by early 2016 so I don't face too many issues booking the tickets. My priorities in order are the 1) lax-dps flights, then 2) hkg-lax flight, then lastly 3) intra-Asia. Flying through Bali, Thailand, and Philippines in J would be nice, but if necessary we can do short economy flights as most of those flights will be less than 2 hours each leg.
RE: Chase, I applied for CSP last week and got rejected (too many accounts opened last two years) so I turned around and applied for Citi Premier. I'll have to rethink when I can get the CSP (if it's even possible)
RE; Singapore suites, my parents and brother and I share an AMEX Rewards Plus account with 180k miles in there. I could always buy 50k miles from my mother @ $500 to do the upgrade on Singapore. But if I could help it, I would rather not buy it from her and let her use it for a trip for herself and my father (or something)