Originally Posted by
demue
YMMV depending on property and all and there may be some decent deals, but it is quite time consuming to figure it out and compare across.
Originally Posted by
carrotjuice
I view Kaligo as akin to - perhaps slightly over simplistically - buying miles by "overpaying".
I spent quite some time yesterday looking for a hotel, and luck had it that I found a good offer that was better than booking direct or through any of the other, popular booking engines. Hopefully there will be no surprises when I get there as this is my first booking with them, but so far so good.
Navigation-wise they could be better and a map view would have been ideal, but I take it they're a relatively new company so improvements will come with time.
Originally Posted by
spk307
my friend bought from Kaligo and said points were credited in 2 days.
It was only during the booking phase that the site mentioned that the points will be credited within 4 weeks. If I get them by this weekend that will be even better.
The good thing is that on the site, when you look up your booking, it actually shows the UOB cards logo and a calculation of how many miles will be coming your way, so this is a nice integration between UOB and Kaligo to show that you have made the booking correctly and that the miles will follow.
10 miles/$ is huge and with the promo valid at both UOB and DBS (PRVI and Altitude respectively) until the end of the year, I just hope that it doesn't get pulled early for some reason.
On a side note I have to give praise to UOB on how they handle the Expedia 6 miles/$ promo. For some reason I was expecting the bonus miles to be credited some time down the road (I didn't read the terms beforehand), but to my surprise they were credited straight away, even before my current statement is due!