I now have two Marriott coupons. Any chance they stack if I spend $1000?
This would be perfect timing since I’m needing to book a place in Niagara and the upgrade would be a pretty awesome view.
So my rtw is coming up in a few weeks (YUL-LIS-DAC-SIN-PHK-self transfer-HAN-HKG-HND-LAX) all J except last leg and was hoping for t-14/30.
Realizing those releases seem to have dried up and getting nervous, I started looking at other ways home. Found JAL for 70K/pp that worked. Boom, perfect!
Ok now what. Started thinking how to use the rtw flexibility to my advantage and decided to just move them into next year.
Looking for married segments and stopovers as far east as I could.
…I kinda go where the points take me.
Found Qatar qsuites from MIA and F on the A380 to BKK for 90K +≈$300/pp. snagged that instantly. Since ANAs calendar opens up a few days later I was able to play the phone game over a few days and get the NRT-LAX in biz from the original rtw booking.
Then had to figure out a main destination. After back and forth with Philippians and Indonesia. Decent award space from BKK and Jakarta to TYO and overage points from the original rtw stuck in ANA. I chose the latter for 10 days.
200k points per person. I know it could have been a little cheaper but taking the long way and J+ everywhere so I’m still happy with the redemption.
Want to see Raja Ampat and both sides of the Wallace line so if anyone has any experience island hopping and liveaboards down there, I’d love to hear.
Tl/dr: This is just me stoked and ranting because I never thought I’d be doing rtw once, much less twice!