Ideas for a TP Run ex GVA in September 2023
My TP year begins in early August. I've already re-qualified for GC status through Sept. of 2024.
I've set a pretty aggressive beginning to my next TP accrual period beginning in August 2023, with some domestic USA travel on AS, plus a RT SEA-LHR-GVA in First long haul, plus CE on the LHR-GVA-LHR segments beginning in early Sept. and ending the beginning of Oct. Counting this already-reserved travel, I should have around 740TPs by early October 2023.
Now that I've set the stage: The Europe trip I have booked in Sept to early Oct. is a week longer than I generally plan for what is basically a trip in Burgundy France plus perhaps a little in Francophone Switzerland. I did this in order to accommodate a TP run, perhaps something that could accrue an additional ~800 TPs or so to requalify for GC status. This number of TPs isn't strictly necessary since I'll have additional opportunities to fly AS segments in the USA for the balance of my TP year.
I'm looking for suggestions as to what I might do over the course of a week, probably best in either early Sept. (around the 7th) or at the end of my trip, which would be essentially the last week of Sept. I'd prefer not to do multiple trips ex-GVA, scattered throughout Sept., since I'll be spending most of my time on this trip 2.5 hours drive away in France.
One thing I do not want to do is to just take a bunch of flights strictly for the purpose of getting TPs; I'd like to go somewhere (or some places) fun and interesting, preferably somewhere or places I've never been. If the timing is right, some places near the ocean with nice weather would be a plus . . . . . Given BA's tendency to cancel flights during shoulder seasons, it would be better to plan something that has more than "thin" service where I could end up with 4 flights or no flights a week if the BA gods so decree. I'd probably prefer longer flights accruing more than 40 TPs per segment, if possible.
Cost is of some but not incredible concern. I have Avios so I could take a one-way or even RT award positioning flight(s) if need be. Since GVA has a lot of EZ Jet and other low-cost flights, I'm assuming that GVA is not a prohibitively expensive place to be originating such an itinerary, however.
Any suggestions?