Need 160 TP's Cheap & Short Travel Duration
Jun 25, 2019, 4:03 am
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Need 160 TP's Cheap & Short Travel Duration
Hi,
Thanks in advance for your help.
We need 160 TPs from London by August 10 as cheap as possible and with max 2 nights out of the country, ideally on a weekend.
What are our options?
Thanks again!
Thanks in advance for your help.
We need 160 TPs from London by August 10 as cheap as possible and with max 2 nights out of the country, ideally on a weekend.
What are our options?
Thanks again!
Jun 25, 2019, 4:05 am
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Jun 25, 2019, 4:20 am
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Is that an 80TP destination? The BA Avios calculator reports it as 40.
My first thought was HEL, there are cheaper midweek fares, but on July 27th, you can do 1 or 2 nights for just under 400 per person. For 160TP, that's £2.5/TP which is not fantastic, but certainly not terrible (and the TP run thread seems to regard anything below £3/TP as a possibility for a run). I'm sure there are other options - I'd just jump onto ITA Matrix and plug in the various 80 TP destinations over a month and see what comes up cheapest. With the shortish notice, I expect many of the traditional holiday options will be a bit pricey tho.
PS - Why Aug 10th? All collection years end on the 8th, and you can get an extension of 2 weeks exactly, so you either need to return by 8th or 22nd surely?
My first thought was HEL, there are cheaper midweek fares, but on July 27th, you can do 1 or 2 nights for just under 400 per person. For 160TP, that's £2.5/TP which is not fantastic, but certainly not terrible (and the TP run thread seems to regard anything below £3/TP as a possibility for a run). I'm sure there are other options - I'd just jump onto ITA Matrix and plug in the various 80 TP destinations over a month and see what comes up cheapest. With the shortish notice, I expect many of the traditional holiday options will be a bit pricey tho.
PS - Why Aug 10th? All collection years end on the 8th, and you can get an extension of 2 weeks exactly, so you either need to return by 8th or 22nd surely?
Jun 25, 2019, 4:56 am
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Full list of 160 TP routes here (my article):
https://www.headforpoints.com/2019/0...points-return/
Catania is generally cheapest but, of course, all bets are off for July / August pricing.
https://www.headforpoints.com/2019/0...points-return/
Catania is generally cheapest but, of course, all bets are off for July / August pricing.
Jun 25, 2019, 4:58 am
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KARFA's excellent first post in the main thread of Tier Points shows the routes :
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...r-thread.html#
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...r-thread.html#
Jun 25, 2019, 5:18 am
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KARFA's excellent first post in the main thread of Tier Points shows the routes :
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...r-thread.html#
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...r-thread.html#
Jun 25, 2019, 5:27 am
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Jun 25, 2019, 5:47 am
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If you're only staying a short while maybe a city break makes more sense than a holiday resort type destination. So maybe IST?
I've just done ACE but I am not sure I'd do that out of choice for a quick TP run. We were there for a week...
I've just done ACE but I am not sure I'd do that out of choice for a quick TP run. We were there for a week...
Jun 25, 2019, 5:50 am
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I was thinking the same, two evening trips to VCE would only be £340 in total and can be done in two individual evenings so no hotel costs if you are trying to completely minimise costs.
Jun 25, 2019, 5:56 am
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Concentrating on the 80TP routes is simply a matter of convenience, i.e. 2 flights instead of 4.