Trip to Morocco or Turkey
 

My wife and I are planning to visit either Morocco or Turkey in September. I currently have 280,000 UA miles and 156,000 Delta Skymiles. What is the best option I have at this point?

Go to Turkey! While Morocco has many things going for it, Turkey IMHO wins hands down. UA has Y seats in Sept EWR-IST for 60k RT plus 100ish in taxes.

Agreed, Turkey is amazing!! Been to both so just depends what you like to do and see. Delta will get you there for 60k.

+1 on Istanbul. Beautiful destination, nice people, wonderful food. Try to get their with Turkish Airlines. I have had wonderful experiences with them. If you would like to travel in first class, Turkish leases the 777 from Jet Airways and offers one of the best first class experiences. The 777 leaves from Washington Dulles and Toronto. Their business is also wonderful and will be a great treat. All of this is easily bookable using United miles.

In terms of which miles to use, DL miles are better for Morocco since the DL award chart places Morocco in the Europe price band, while UA places it in Northern Africa. 156K SkyMiles is enough for two r/t tickets in Y (60K each), although you'll probably fly AF/KL/AZ across the pond to get it for that number of miles. If you got up to 160K, you could book one direction in J (50K) and the other in Y (30K) for 80K each.

Been to both. Turkey wins, although it is harder to find fresh camel in the meat markets there.:D

For what it's worth, I just got back from Morocco and from my experience in Morocco and what I've heard about Turkey (haven't been), I would recommend my friends go to Turkey. Morocco is a very different cultural experience and interesting, but there are other places in the world which I think are more interesting to me, both that I have been to and that I would like to go to.

a week in each?.....a week in ist & a black sea cruise would be neat....

In turkey now,selcuk to be exact.love it here so another vote for turkey