I'd like to plan a trip some other time, but haven't figured out when yet.
oh no, Jay Sawnson is an American living in Paris that has lots of great information regarding Paris.
p2 is a little over $3k into the $75k spend on the CIC. Is it worth it to SM do you think?
I have this on soooo many cards. But OD is 30 minutes away, and I would fee weird buying like 10 separate cards.
OMG, my husband also thinks he's some type of coffee barista. Does your husband have an Aeropress? It's a little contraption sort of like a french press but apparently better. My husband swears by it. Maybe a good holiday gift and it's super inexpensive.
Please report back- I'd love to hear all the details.Adding myself to the list!Going over Christmas this year, and I'm really looking forward to it. I'd love to make it to Tabacon also, but there's no availability for the dates I need. I have fond memories of the La Fortuna area, and would love to get back there someday.
You might want to sign up for SeatSpy's one month free trial (I think it's a month). They have a super easy snapshot view of a whole year's worth of AirFrance's flights, as long as they are a nonstop route, like ORD-CDG. When I had the membership, I was stalking our dates as well and it helped me see patterns of when biz fares would drop. Sometimes, fares would drop just a few days before the flight and sometimes they would stay high, but at least I knew it was possible.
I think I've mentioned it before, but you should really check out Virgin Red/ Virgin Atlantic. They have fares on KLM or AF metal for 19k + $164, OW, economy. I seem to recall you have a big stash of Capital One points? They're running a transfer bonus of 30% right now, so you could get these flights for under 15k points.
mines booked for winter 2023 the availability filled up . Last night I was thinking about it they had a 2 bed with an ocean view and I was like I'm going to ask DW this morning they didn't so YMMV but I think this property must be one of the better deals on points for 17k points seems too low for me (over 3 cents pp). I am too hoping for japan for a guy's trip, may have to "settle" for ireland.
What?! We could've had a DIS meetup?I had Christmas booked on points at the Andaz (60 day cancellation policy!). But Japan reopened, so we're going there instead.
j/k I know you've been trying to get a trip to Japan for a long time, glad you are finally making it happen!yeah i wanted to do big sur i have a feeling they are going to go up in category DW wants our kid to go with us all the time though so not in the cards until DD is annoyed with us and wants to stay with uncles or aunts.What?! We could've had a DIS meetup?
60 day cancellation policy, yikes! My reservations at Andaz have a 7 day cancellation policy and even that makes me nervous. Not as nervous, though, as my Alila Ventana Big Sur reservations that have a 14 day cancellation policy, those cash rates are crazy. I have not figured out the best way to guard against that whole Hyatt cancellation policy. If it's booked on points, and Hyatt decides rather opaquely to charge you the cash rate on the days you've planned to be there, how do you even purchase travel insurance for that, kwim?
What?! We could've had a DIS meetup?
60 day cancellation policy, yikes! My reservations at Andaz have a 7 day cancellation policy and even that makes me nervous. Not as nervous, though, as my Alila Ventana Big Sur reservations that have a 14 day cancellation policy, those cash rates are crazy. I have not figured out the best way to guard against that whole Hyatt cancellation policy. If it's booked on points, and Hyatt decides rather opaquely to charge you the cash rate on the days you've planned to be there, how do you even purchase travel insurance for that, kwim?
Don't feel weird, mine is like 20 minutes away and when I go in DH and I both use all the one we have in separate transactions. I just tell them ahead of time, this is all going to be separate transactions. Some look at you weird like "why are you doing this" and some could care less. I don't care what they think. Now my OD never has a line either, if there was a line I might just do a couple and then get back in line, I wouldn't want to hold anyone else up while I stand there and do 10 transactions.
Based on my observations, it seems that the cancellation policy is dynamic and I speculate it depends on whatever the property is seeing for demand on their back end and how far in advance you're booking. I've seen it anywhere from 7 days (but your dates are the especially high demand dates, ours are a little earlier) to non-refundable for my dates, just depending on when I'm checking (I keep hoping to see a standard suite available for our dates, fat chance though lol).
Ventana Big Sur became an all-inclusive sometime in 2020. The points were definitely devalued though in March this year. I booked a Big Sur Suite for 48K/nt and now it's 66K/nt. Unfortunately I had no luck finding standard room redemptions there.
Do you do 10 when it's the VGC offer is running?
Well now I see that. LOL. Oh well. I guess I'll just do lump sums tomorrow then.
Yes, I did have over 500,000 C1 points at one time but have been spending some to erase travel charges from my August and September trips so I’m down to a bit over 400,000. That is a great deal! How easy is it to cancel flights? I’m constantly changing flights for overseas. I know the points can’t be transferred back. Need to learn more about Virgin Atlantic! Thanks for the info!
I booked for next year for what will be our 4th visit! I keep saying maybe this year will be the last visit lol. I usually don't like going back to the same hotel since some of the mystery is lost, but we really do enjoy Ventana.
I didn’t thinking driving there was difficult at all. It just takes longer to get everywhere then you might think and you want to watch out for pot holes. Also Waze is better than google maps. We stayed in an air bnb in Arenal that I loved. I think if you google Casa Del Rio you can find it. There is a slide there that my kiddos loved and the whole property is gorgeous. We never needed 4WD but we didn’t go off the beaten track either. I can’t remember what rental car company, but I think maybe Adobe?Adding myself to the list!
What car rental company did you use? How long was the drive from LIR and was it easy? We've been to Costa Rica a couple of times and always had a private shuttle service take us around, but looking at the map Guanacaste looks to be pretty straightforward from the LIR airport, so I'm thinking we might actually be able to handle the drive. Is 4WD necessary?
