Weekend Blitz

Looking to take a trip with Flying Blue miles from the US? Take a look at our interactive award map below to find and select how many Flying Blue miles you might need for that next trip!

The legend shows the award prices for economy but if you hover over a country you can see the award prices for Economy, Premium Economy, Business and First classes:

And don’t forget, you can always transfer points from the following programs into Flying Blue:

McCown and I are working on researching a trip to Myanmar for sometime in 2015 and have been scouring the internet trying to learn all that we can about how to get there, what to see, where to stay, etc… We’ll have a few points related to our Myanmar trip planning over the next few weeks, but, first of all: What’s the best way to get to Myanmar using miles or points from North America? 

Map of Myanmar/Burma. Yangon = home of the main international airport for the country. Mandalay, Bagan and Inle Lake are popular tourist destinations within the country.

There are essentially 3 major international [...]

Note: Booking begins on Thursday Jan 1, 2015.

Don’t miss out on Flying Blue’s spring promo, which allows you to book Air France/KLM awards for 25-50% less than normal in March through April 2015:

Award bookings on Air France/KLM routes have been reduced by 25-50% for travel between March 1, 2014 – April 30, 2015.

For those of us sitting in ‘Merica, we’ll be most interested in:

As reported here, American Express is running a 40% bonus on transfers to British Airways Avios for the next ~6 weeks.

The Deal

For a limited time, all transfers from American Express Membership Rewards points to British Airways Avios will receive a 40% transfer bonus. It is reported that this deal will last until 1/31/2015, but it is always possible that it could end sooner– so, I would suggest jumping on it ASAP. The transfer is hard coded on the AMEX website at a rate of: 1,000 Membership Rewards® Points = 1,400 Avios.

You can use British Airways Avios miles to book oneworld alliance partner flights, including those on: American Airlines, US [...]

Update 12/11 @ 6pm: This deal is now dead. We managed to book 38 nights over 17 seperate bookings!

Hurry up and book ASAP. This is basically the same Orbitz deal that ran on Cyber Monday but instead of a 1-night minimum, Orbitz is requiring your to book a 2-night minimum.

There also doesn’t appear to be a limit to bookings so you could continue to book 2-nights stays indefinitely.

The Deal

You can get $100 off a 2-night hotel booking of $100 or more on Orbitz from Dec 1 – 8 by paying with Visa Checkout and using promo code “Visacheckout”.

You will be responsible for paying taxes on all nights so you [...]

As reported here on The Travel Trickster, you can find some seriously cheap flights from New York-JFK or Miami-MIA and Iguazu Falls-IGU:

The Deal

Book flights from New York-JFK or Miami-MIA to Iguazu Falls-IGU for as low as $474 to $524 for travel in January, February or March 2015.

Available travel dates for New York-JFK to Iguazu Falls-IGU in March 2015

By: …your local connection – CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

How to Get It

Note: These are bookable now.

Don’t miss out on Flying Blue’s summer promo, which allows you to book Air France/KLM awards for 25-50% less than normal in February and March 2015:

Award bookings on  select Air France/KLM routes have been reduced by 25-50% for travel between February 1 –  March 31, 2015.

For those of us sitting in ‘Merica, we’ll be most interested in:

After a wonderful few very sunny and warm days in Bordeaux (more on the Bordeaux trip here: Walking Tour of Bordeaux, France), we headed north to the region of Pays de la Loire to visit my sister, Leslie.

BOOKING

We purchased our tickets at the Bordeaux train station, aka Gare de Bordeaux-Saint-Jean, about an hour before departure. We made sure to skip booking way in advance using a USA-specific site such as Rail Europe (read more about the best way to book a French train ticket in advance here: How-to: Booking French Trains (RailEurope vs SNCF)).

We were able to book our tickets for 37.30 euros each (~$46.43 USD); in contrast, the RailEurope version of the [...]

Update: It looks like the 10,000 booking / $1,000,000 max was reached and the deal is now dead.

We’ve seen plenty of Black Friday and Small Business Saturday sales over the past few days, and so far all were a huge disappointment (except for the AMEX Small Business Saturday deal where we landed $180 in free stuff). The one that has all along seemed the most promising is the $100 off a hotel booking from Orbitz.

The Deal

You can get $100 off a hotel booking of $100 or more on Orbitz from Dec 1 – 8 by paying with Visa Checkout and using promo code “Visacheckout”.

How to Get It

Update 11/24, 9:58am: the list is now live, you can begin booking now! 

The IHG Rewards Club PointBreaks preview list has been updated through February 28, 2015! Below is a list of all of the hotels that IHG is offering for just 5,000 points a night. Since this is just a preview, we expect more hotels to be added when the list goes live on Monday. Don’t forget that you can buy 5,000 points for just $35, which basically allows you to book any of the rooms below for just $35/night:

Check our tutorial on how to book rooms for $35 / night

When you’re ready to book (note: booking starts Monday, November 24): Click here to go to the PointsBreaks [...]