Right. I'm almost in. :)

Nice job, Mike. Put me on the confirmed list, please.

Booked flights some time ago, in anticipation of the
official RUN announcement.

Jan 07/08: ORD-NRT-SIN (UA 881/803)
Jan 15: SIN-ORD (UA 896)

Booked, confirmed, upgraded - life is sweet sometimes!

Hotel split between Sentosa Resort & Spa and Grand Hyatt.

Please put me down as a tentative.

I plan to go visit the fam in CGK that month. Perhaps I can schedule a long layover in SIN on my way to CGK so I can attend the Do :D

Very tempting...very interested... :cool:

Flights booked and upgrades confirmed

UA 1445 Phoenix (PHX) Jan 09 7:54 San Francisco (SFO) Jan 09 8:55 2C
UA 837 San Francisco (SFO) Jan 09 11:29 Tokyo (NRT) Jan 10 15:30 15A
UA 803 Tokyo (NRT) Jan 10 17:30 Singapore (SIN) Jan 10 23:59 11B

TG 404 Singapore (SIN) Jan 15 12:25 Bangkok (BKK) Jan 15 13:45

Hotel: Sheraton

Hmm. I wanted to go to last years but was otherwise detained. Maybe if my plans for new years are hampered by work I can make up for it with this. I guess I'm in the 'interested enough to subscribe to the thread to keep updated' column.

For anyone travelling ORD-SIN via NRT, UA is currently running a DoubleMiles promo. "Almost" all Y class tix are eligible (down to V - I'm told), and details are located HERE

Best, Dave

I'm in -
Jan 11
UA877 BOS ORD 0800 0840 319 2A
UA895 ORD SIN 1218 1145 744 15B
Jan 15
UA804 SIN NRT 0730 1455 777 9J
UA838 NRT SFO 1725 0920 744 15A
UA176 SFO BOS 1115 1946 752 2D

Probably staying at the Rendezvous.

This would be my first DO! When do you need a commitment by?

What have the tickets been pricing out at? I'm getting ~ $1300+ for the weekend from ORD. What have been others' experiences so far?

I paid $875 for a W all in with an open jaw returning from BKK. I think you need to stay the 6 days to get an upgradable fare under $1000.

Ususally we get a few maybes going green as late as early December.

Adding one more at dinner is a breeze and all activities that may occur will occur regardless of numbers so no pressure really. I think the main thing is to strategize a good air deal and a good hotel deal and if that takes a few more weeks you will be in the same boat as aa couple dozen others No worries.

Mike

This sounds like fun. I'm new to FT so it would be cool to meet some other members. Actually I am going to Bali for new year's and flying back through SIN on 1/9.. doh! I would have to book another RT. But I'm going for 1k next year so that's doable.

On UA I see SFO-LAX-SIN-HKG-SFO for $1089 AI.

SFO-LAX 1000 bonus miles
(more EQM stopping in LAX)
HKG-SFO 5000 bonus miles

All UA metal. 1000 bonus booking miles

Sounds fun.. I'm tentatively in

Last year we took a side trip to KUL, and, thanks to the wonderful advice we received from all of you, enjoyed the Singapore first class lounge on out way out and the Malaysia first class lounge on the way back.

This year we are thinking of taking a side trip to Saigon. Any great insights?

I'm paying $1144 for UA RNO-SFO-SIN Jan.10-15 (fare=Q). I'm not complaining because last year I paid $1275 for the same itinerary. :) As gfowler-ord-1k points out though, if I could have extended my stay and booked Jan.9-15, price would fall to $824 (fare=W)!