SuzanneSLO
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 10, 1999
It's hard to get outsized value using miles to fly to Hawaii in coach, but if you are on the west coast, using British Airways Avios to fly on American or Alaska might be an option. The grandfather of all frequent flyer forums is flyertalk. The American Airlines post merger with US message board has a thread pinned to the top for newbies, which promises not to laugh or intimidate.Wow, sounds like you did great!
Do you know are there any forums for beginners learning how to do this? I follow million miles secrets (I guess I can say that here) and I have learned a lot, but our family along with my sister's family and my mom are wanting to do a hawaiian cruise next summer and I would love to figure out a way that we could fly there with points. I've used Southwest's signup bonuses 2 times for myself and once for my DH and I find them very easy to use and we've had a lot of free flights from the cards, but unfortunately they don't fly to Hawaii.
I've looked into American Airlines cards because they also have good signup bonuses that could probably help, but I've never felt confident that we'd all be able to book on the same flights, etc and would love to post a question about it where I could get some interactive feedback like we do here.
I find using miles to fly for a cruise can be complicated because you don't have a lot of wiggle room or the ability to book flights last minute. But it can be done, as we have booked flights for next summer in business class for DCL cruise in Northern Europe.
Best of luck. -- Suzanne