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My Point.Me Review – Not Worth Paying $100 For It
After watching a video about a Point.Me review, I excitedly paid $103 for the point me premium subscription service with a trip to Thailand in mind.
After signing up, I excitedly typed in my dates (11/13/24 – 12/2/24), departure airport (MCO) and destination (CNX). I waited a couple mins and was faced with “No Flights Found” message.
I tried at least 10 different combinations of departure airports, destination cities, and dates each one giving me the same message.
Eventually, I found flights (on Google) a flight to Singapore (from Miami) with the idea of adding another flight at the end from Singapore to Chiang Mai and finally got some results on Point.me for that, but I found better redemption (190k points) for business class on Aeroplan.
The cheapest Point.me can find is 200k.
I am pretty disappointed that I spent $100 for the service.
I don’t think Point.Me is worth it.
Have others had better luck with it?
Maybe someone can recommend a better award search engine to use.
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The key value Point.me or any of these kinds of things is that you need to be flexible.
It’s a person’s flexibility and expectations that some service is going to get them some amazing deal with rigid dates.
Sorry, you were disappointed with the service.
Hopefully, it will work better for your travels in the future.
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I am somewhat flexible with my dates +/- 4 days on either end and even departure airports and destination airport (though I eventually need to end up in Chiang Mai), but still was having no luck.
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PointsYeah is awesome.
I like it enough to upgrade to the paid version, but even the free one is pretty stellar!
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The best all-in-one points travel planning(award search) site on earth and it's free
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It’s not just flexibility it’s timing when I looked for a flight to July Europe trip in February there was nothing.
So I booked a refundable economy flight for the family.
At the moment I have some good coach options for points 6 weeks out but I’ll wait a bit longer to see any better class of service flights come up.
Also, the number of tickets you are looking for makes a big difference.
If it’s just you and you have the flexibility to fly next week, I just saw a first/business class ticket for Norfolk, VA to Sydney for 65k, in coach on the same route was 40k.
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Might need to search for bigger airports in Thailand, either BKK or DMK and then fly to Chiang Mai.
Or look at SIN, HKG, KUL, as those are hubs.
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No.
I think it’s a waste of money compared to other options available and I’ve never found the best flight deal available on there in the year that we have had it.
I’ve always been able to go directly to Aeroplan, Virgin Atlantic, Air France or British Airways and find a better deal.
Seats.Aero has alert functionality and allows you to search multiple airline pairings.
Point.me is slow and only allows one airport combination at a time.
It is a pain.
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We had good success but were flexible with our departure airport.
We are in Atlanta, but flew business from JFK to Madrid.
We used our Southwest companion pass to get us to from New York.
I think the key is being flexible with your searches!
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I also just signed up for the paid points.me subscription and either I’m doing something wrong or there just isn’t any value there.
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