Originally Posted by
craz
you feel good cause it went back up to $300, Id see it as a loss op that I didnt jump in at $172. There goes your Feb trip. Its like having a res for a free air tkt and then see that theres a fare war on and didnt cancel the tkt, later the price goes back to $600 from the $198 sale price and a person is happy as they are saving alot of $$$ by using their miles. Id see it as the opposite they had an op to grab a cheap tkt , so instead of the tkt saving them the $600 fare I see it as if they saved Only the $198 fare.
My point is that your free nights are really Only saving You $172 per night and not $300.
This is what I posted, "I checked again this morning and I suppose I feel better about using an award. The rates are back up to approx $300 US. It may have been one of those things were it was "now or never."
I never said I felt good about the rates going up, only that I felt better about using the award that I already had planned on using.
It is just a different way of looking at it. Of COURSE I would have liked to have spent $172 per night, but since that option is over, I need to move on and focus on the positive (like...I have enough points for an award...and that we are fortunate enough to be going to Budapest/Amsterdam to begin with). I can't change what happened yesterday and I suppose I could mope around today feeling absolutely AWFUL, but that is just not my personality. I can find soimething positive in just about any situation--that is what my husband says makes me such an ideal traveling partner!
Trust me, our February trip is on...we are blessed to travel every February as well...I'm just not sure where yet.
Besides, I think EVERYTHING happens for a reason (silly, I know) and maybe if I went ahead and snatched the $172, something may have happened and we couldn't go that week and then I would have had to forfeit $1k+....so I really don't trip on those things because it always seems to work out like it is supposed to in the end.
Glass half full, half empty....I'm just glad I don't feel as if I suffered some sort of "loss." Trust me, my criteria of a "loss" is much, much greater. Like getting ready to put down our 16 year old dog that has been with us since we got married nearly 16 years ago--now
that is a loss. Not a few hundred bucks.
Dawn