[QUOTE=Randy Petersen]it's nice to see so many positive experiences. Thank you all.............While it is certain that the girls in that department......
.....But the girls will put their best effort forward......

Mr. Petersen, I don't think "girls" is really appropriate unless they are under the age of 16...

P-

This sounds like a great service, and I know exactly when I will be using it. Thanks.

Glad to see that many people have had success with this service. I may need to give it a try. Kudos to Randy! (Although I second that "girls" means females under 20 or so. )

As an aside, I don't chase miles and awards as much as many people here, since work never pays for my trips (even if they're work-related.) But, I love the "thrill of the hunt" when it comes to timesharing trading. Now I'm wondering if a service like Awardplanner would work for timeshare owners who don't have the time to search online for that perfect trade.

Does the $39 fee cover RTW reward travel as well?

Wow. I understand that $39 covers 'a single trip' -- though I wouldn't fault Randy for imposing a surcharge on a RTW award I don't know that such a surcharge exists.. (Though you might consider having them book a few other things for you besides just the flights, let them earn a little somethin' off your travels...!)

Just a thought, may be another fee options:

Initial Non-refundable fee of $10.00 and if successful and decided
to book, than a $50.00 charge.

These could mean more business for Randy.

problem with the last idea is that the customer finds out what the itinerary would be from the people ("the girls"...haha..sorry had to poke fun at that) who worked hard to find it, then--with this information--the customer 'cancels' the service and just books the itin by themselves, thus screwing over the company that actually did all the hard work by paying 10 bucks instead of 50.

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[QUOTE=Parkershepps]I used to believe in not using the term "girls" for political correctness, but recent experiences have changed my mind. The vast majority of young women I talk to have no problem with that term. I'm talking about women that I talk to in the bars, so usually ones under 30. I'm not sure about how women over 30 feel about the term as I have a very small sample size of them.

Back to the topic, I'm glad I saw this thread about awardplanner. Next time I book an award ticket, I plan on using their services. The only award ticket i've booked was a last minute trip to AMS and that was easy to do on united.bomb. For my next trip, I want to go with my mother to two cities in Asia, and I think that would be a huge pain to try to book myself.

FWIW I spoke to the folks at Business2.0 about some travel tips, and one of them was Award Planner -- for folks who travel alot, have lots of miles, but not the time or energy to figure out how to make the most of them.

Alas, I enjoy battling airline yield management myself so I haven't used the service. Perhaps someone that has might want to speak about it.

Cheers,
Gary

I only saw a $99 annual membership on Award Planner. Is there a one trip membership for $39 and how do you find it?

Seems great, but..

[QUOTE=rhwbullhead]Well, the word jumped put at me when I first read Randy's post, and I wasn't pleased.

I fully intend to use AwardPlanner again as soon as we figure out where we want to go. She can't do that for us!

Actually, in that case, not using AwardPlanner can be more interesting -- I called United last year with dates and a desire for an international business class ticket to somewhere for my wife's spring break, and we wound up going to New Zealand!

Dan