Feb 3, 2014, 1:11 pm
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This list is not an endorsement of any particular award booking service.
Please do your research and read this thread.
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This list is not an endorsement of any particular award booking service.
Please do your research and read this thread.
Please refer to the FT Disclaimers for disclaimer of responsibility for use of these services, etc.
Please feel free add other services and options you are aware of to this wiki.
Also, please post any personal experiences you may have with any of these services in this thread.
Reviews which appear to have been solicited by the service providers based upon content and posting history will be deleted. If you are a brand new or a member with a low post count and wish that your post not be deleted, please be sure to include the following details in your review: program(s), number of miles or points and the desired destinations and hotels. Please also include the itinerary booked by the service including the airlines, routing and hotels, the number of points needed to book that trip and the fee charged.
Award booking services (alphabetical):
- Award Advocate - Domestic $100 p/p International $125 p/p, no additional charge for last minute. Changes $50. Also 10% discount for families traveling with children and active military
- Award Booking Service - $25 up front search fee plus $150/ticket & $49 per 30-minute skype consultations (ask anything!)
- Award Butler - Award Search: $79 for up to two passengers; flight info provided but does not include booking. Booking starting at $149 for first two passengers.
- Award Chaser - Search fee starting at $79. Itinerary only - no booking provided
- Award Expert - (MatthewLAX on FT, Live and Let's Fly blog) $150 first passenger, $100 each additional passenger; $250 per person for RTW; $50/ticket booking fee.
- Award Flight Assist - Specialising in Australian frequent flyer programs; from AU$199 for the first passenger, additional charges for complex itineraries and more passengers
- Award Planners - One way $129, additional person $99; Round trip $199, additional person $99; Multi City $249 additional person $149
- Award Travel Consulting - Award Search: $125/person; Booking ticket: $75/itinerary; changes: new trip
- Awardmagic - $179 per person OW/RT plus one stop or $279 per person for three or more destinations
- BoundlessMiles - (Dominik Żmuda/Travelling the World): Booking: starting at $50 per passenger; Changes: half of award flight service fee paid
- CabinChief - Bookings are $49 per pax
- CatchUsFlying - $125 CAD/person for round-trip, $225 CAD/person for complex round-the-world. Consulting available at $75CAD/hour. (loganre17) on FT
- Chatflights - Use app to chat in real time with real travel hackers to book travel for points or cash. Booking fee $295 pp coach and business, $395 pp first class.
- Cranky Concierge - $75 per person each way domestic; $95 per person each way international
- First Class and Beyond - "Concierge-style" bookings. Fee is based on the value of the retail ticket, $250/person minimum.
- Flightfox - Consultative flight searching; fees start at $100 (requires credit card authorization up front)
- Flyermiles - (Graham / YOWgary) $150 + 50 per additional person, $250 for RTW awards. Offers detailed information on how to book your own award.
- iflywithmiles.com - (Mike/Melissa): 150 USD first person, 85 for additional person on same itin. Change fees vary.
- JJ Award Travel - FT Member since 2012 - No upfront fees. Basic one-way or round-trip air award travel consisting of a total of 8 legs or less for the entire itinerary: $250 for the first person and $125 for each additional person. Complex one-way or round-trip air award travel consisting of a total of 9 or more legs per direction is additional. FT members get a 10% discount.
- Loophole Travel - Award Travel Coaching $150 for first passenger and $100 for each additional passenger. Points Earning and MS Coaching also available.
- Luxury Travel Consulting - (Jasper2009 on Flyertalk): $150 per person per ticket
- Miles Help - Domestic: $100 OW; $140 RT/complex. International: $150 OW; $200 RT/complex. $50 each additional person
- Miles Momma Booking Services - Airline Booking: $200 up to 2 passengers. $75 additional passengers. $50 non-refundable up front. Changes $50
- MileValue Award Booking Service - (Scott Grimmer): Booking: $125 per person per award; $15 up front. Full payment required for successful search even if not booked. Change fee not currently listed; previously $79
- PMM Travel Consulting - (Miguel R. Quinones/AwardWallet Blog): Booking: $125 per passenger for the first two, $99 for each additional. Additional charges for complex itineraries. Credit card advice and travel planning services.
- Point.me - merger of services formerly provided by PointsPro (Ben Schlappig/One Mile At a Time) and Juice Miles
- Reward Flyer - Domestic: $50 first person; $25 each additional person. International: $100 first person; $50 each additional person
- SFO777.com - (SFO777 on FT) Booking: $200 first passenger, $100 each additional passenger; change fees vary
- Travel Codex - Per person pricing: $50 for North America award / $100 for International award.
- The Flying Mustache - $100 per ticket; additional fees for more than eight segments. Change fees vary
- The Short Final - $100 per person. $100 upfront deposit that is fully refundable if no itinerary found.
- Travel Is The Point - USA, Canada/Mexico & the Caribbean – starting at $50 per person. All Other International Destinations – starting at $100 per person.
- zainman - FT member since 2009. Booking: $200 first passenger, $100 each additional passenger; change fees vary, consultant services for $ as well
- Zero Hassle Rewards - $100 per person. Discounts for domestic and one-way
Award booking services - a list and some reviews
Feb 17, 2018, 8:59 am
#601
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Feb 17, 2018, 9:31 am
#602
Join Date: Apr 2010
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Thanks SanDiego. So this morning I woke up and got a couple of messages from Book Your Award apologizing the the delay, and letting me know the miles will be reposted back to my account. Apparently they have a staff member out with the flu which is causing a backup. Fair enough but several days of no response, especially after the AA freak out had me worried. Book Your Award also sent an invoice, with a 75% discount off the booking services for inconvenience caused. I find this to be satisfactory although I think I'll wait to pay the invoice until I see the miles posted back to my AA account!
I wonder if the suddenly hasty response was from my tweet to Gary Left last night and/or my post here - I'd like to think it was and I really do love how helpful you all can be -- thank you!
I wonder if the suddenly hasty response was from my tweet to Gary Left last night and/or my post here - I'd like to think it was and I really do love how helpful you all can be -- thank you!
Feb 17, 2018, 3:25 pm
#603
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Moderator's Note - Solicited Reviews
Folks,
It is time for the periodic reminder.
Award booking services reviews which, based upon content and posting history, appear to have been solicited by the service providers will be deleted.
Additional posts(s) have been deleted.
If you are a brand new or a member with a low post count and wish that your post not be deleted, please be sure to include the following details in your review: program(s), number of miles or points and the desired destinations and hotels. Please also include the itinerary booked by the service including the airlines, routing and hotels, the number of points needed to book that trip and the fee charged.
Thank you for understanding.
TWA884
Moderator
It is time for the periodic reminder.
Award booking services reviews which, based upon content and posting history, appear to have been solicited by the service providers will be deleted.
Additional posts(s) have been deleted.
If you are a brand new or a member with a low post count and wish that your post not be deleted, please be sure to include the following details in your review: program(s), number of miles or points and the desired destinations and hotels. Please also include the itinerary booked by the service including the airlines, routing and hotels, the number of points needed to book that trip and the fee charged.
Thank you for understanding.
TWA884
Moderator
Mar 1, 2018, 12:17 pm
#604
Join Date: May 2010
Programs: Delta Kryptonium
Posts: 1,144
Award Booking Service Recommendation
I am going to use an award booking service for an October trip to Coatia (DTW-ZAG & SPU-DTW) - does anyone have any recommendations from personal experience? I looked at some reviews of some services, but none seem to be fairly recent.
Mar 1, 2018, 1:21 pm
#605
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What would they get you that an ExpertFlyer subscription and some help from Flyertalk can't? Is it just a matter of you are too busy to do the research? I've never heard of these 'award booking services' until your post and another in the past few days.
If you have to give them access to your Skymiles account, I'd be very wary and don't blame you for soliciting reviews though.
If you have to give them access to your Skymiles account, I'd be very wary and don't blame you for soliciting reviews though.
Mar 1, 2018, 1:40 pm
#606
Join Date: May 2010
Programs: Delta Kryptonium
Posts: 1,144
What would they get you that an ExpertFlyer subscription and some help from Flyertalk can't? Is it just a matter of you are too busy to do the research? I've never heard of these 'award booking services' until your post and another in the past few days.
If you have to give them access to your Skymiles account, I'd be very wary and don't blame you for soliciting reviews though.
If you have to give them access to your Skymiles account, I'd be very wary and don't blame you for soliciting reviews though.
Mar 1, 2018, 6:07 pm
#609
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Location: MKE
Programs: DL 2 MM
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This is not helping to answer your question, but a quick, flexible date search shows a few different options in October for 140k/person (Delta's current 'low' to Europe) IF you stick with DTW-ZAG-DTW, and do as separate ticket to/from SPU (seeing $63 one-way on Croatia Airlines).
Looks like a mix of DL and AF metal.
Looks like a mix of DL and AF metal.
Mar 2, 2018, 12:37 am
#611
Join Date: Sep 2008
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What would they get you that an ExpertFlyer subscription and some help from Flyertalk can't? Is it just a matter of you are too busy to do the research? I've never heard of these 'award booking services' until your post and another in the past few days.
If you have to give them access to your Skymiles account, I'd be very wary and don't blame you for soliciting reviews though.
If you have to give them access to your Skymiles account, I'd be very wary and don't blame you for soliciting reviews though.
Mar 2, 2018, 9:29 am
#612
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Moderator Note: I've just moved the thread to the Travel Tools forum. Please continue the discussion there.
You may want to check the following discussion: Award booking services - a list and some reviews
You may want to check the following discussion: Award booking services - a list and some reviews
Mar 2, 2018, 1:55 pm
#613
Moderator: Travel Safety/Security, Travel Tools, California, Los Angeles; FlyerTalk Evangelist
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Moderator Note: I've just moved the thread to the Travel Tools forum. Please continue the discussion there.
You may want to check the following discussion: Award booking services - a list and some reviews
You may want to check the following discussion: Award booking services - a list and some reviews
@rubesl, take a look at earlier messages in this now merged thread for reviews and in the wikipost for a list of providers.
TWA884
Travel Tools moderator
Mar 2, 2018, 5:57 pm
#614
Join Date: Feb 2017
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Paid service that helps you book with points?
I have an international trip that I'm having trouble booking with award points (I waited too long) Does anyone know of a service I can pay to help me with this? I have Chase Ultimate rewards, Skymiles, Advantage miles & Southwest and think I might need to transfer to a partner.
Mar 2, 2018, 6:10 pm
#615
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I have an international trip that I'm having trouble booking with award points (I waited too long) Does anyone know of a service I can pay to help me with this? I have Chase Ultimate rewards, Skymiles, Advantage miles & Southwest and think I might need to transfer to a partner.
Surprisingly there have been several recent requests for the same service as this.
Including Professional Points Specialist?!