Originally Posted by saunders111

Look again at AA Hotels. I got my "top up" LPs this year at an average of a bit less than 2.4 cents/LP using no show reservations in southeast Asia. If you do the same, you'd expect to pay about $120 for the 5K you need. The posting rate for prepaid no show reservations is close to 100% for people in that thread. It was exactly 100% for me this year. Since the posting is typically about 5 days after check in date, you have time for three or more attempts before the deadline.

Just as a pointer, consider the "Good Luck Day Hotel" in Phnom Penh, checking in on 1/29 and out on 1/30, then in again on 1/31 and out on 2/1. That'll get you 4940 LPs at 2.3 cents/LP, not including tax. I'm assuming you are in the zone to get the 30% LP bonus for being within 6 months of passing 100K, and I'm not including the 114 LPs for the credit card spend. Of course, YMMV!