Originally Posted by
Happy
Only if you have the need to travel in such periods. If you do, or plan to, sure, you should hold out for such redemption to SAVE cold hard cash. But if one does not have such near term or even mid term plan to visit places during a high demand period, there is no reason to "hold out" for when one can save reasonable sum of cash.
Again, how one travels, determine the redemption. Also dont forget the other side of the equation - the earning side. That makes huge difference, too.
People are free to make their own decisions about how to burn their points. That others may have different travel patterns seems rather an obvious point.