When checking for award availability, I used to pick a date for a 1-night stay, and then disregard the answer. Instead, I'd go down to the bottom and click on "Travel plans flexible?" and it would bring up a little window. I could then enter any date, pick a room type, and get a 4-week calendar showing availability.

Lately, it seems to stop if I pick a date that doesn't happen to have availability. If I do manage to find an open date, when I click on the 'flexible' message, I get four weeks from the date I put in.

In other words, I no longer seem to have the ability to ping-pong back and forth to and from the calendar, and see a year's worth of open dates in a short time. Now I have to laboriously hunt for an open date by guessing, and go on from there.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this another "improvement" to their search engine?

Discussed briefly back at the beginning of February which may be found at the link below:

Chris: Latest downgrade makes Alternate Date Finder useless!

Definitely not useless, but you can't use it the way many of us have used it in the past.

Sorry, didn't notice it back then; I had made me reses before then, so I had no need.

It's still a bummer.