Becky
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If you’re avoiding downtown or South Beach, then there is great Latin food in downtown Doral or Coral Gables had a plethora of great restaurants and isn’t too far from airport.
Most of what’s directly around the airport is not good with the exception of a little sushi place as you get toward Doral right off I-75
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Use Seatspy’s annual or monthly color-coded calendar view to find available dates.
Once you choose your preferred dates, you can see which transfer partners offer the best deals in terms of points.
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Same here!
It happened to us a couple of months ago.
Needed to transfer an extra 1,000 points.
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Don’t drive outside of the US unless you’re used to driving in that particular area.
I haven’t been to ANYWHERE in the Caribbean, Central or South America where all traffic rules are followed.
The local taxis are cheap and they know what flies and doesn’t.
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You can also book with Amex travel portal at 1 cent per point or erase the charge with Capital One Points Eraser at the same 1 cent per point.
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Flying Blue is the name of the frequent flyer program.
Both Air France and KLM are part of the Flying Blue program
Sometimes airlines have alliances or partnerships where they will sell (for cash or points or often both) each other’s tickets.
Flying Blue just made a partnership with Etihad where Etihad is allowing Flying Blue members/customers to buy airline tickets through Flying Blue.
So those would be Etihad tickets sold on the Flying Blue website using Flying Blue points.
Virtually all airlines do not release ALL seats to partners, they would prefer to sell the ticket themselves to keep more of the money.
So some flights on Etihad may not be sold on Flying Blue, or for example Etihad may allow 3 seats to be booked with points but only allow 1 of those seats to be bought by partners.
People get excited about these partnerships because different programs price things in different ways, and so sometimes if Airline X is selling a ticket for 100,000 X points their Partner Airline Y may sell you the exact same seat on the exact same flight for only 50,000 points.
It is essentially a “foreign currency arbitrage” like concept in financial terms
That’s the simplest breakdown of airline partnerships that I can come up with.
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Did one last month for around 135k.
Cleared in minutes, same with one last week for just 1k.
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We decided to pre-book our long airport transfer through Viator then just use UBER. It was definitely worth it.
Highway closures, limited cell service in the mountains, and roads that were in pretty poor condition.
Definitely not a situation I want to drive in.
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My opinion is that you are cutting it too close.
The problem is clearing customs (takes 1 minute with Global Entry).
This issue is waiting for your checked bag.
If it comes out first on the conveyor belt then it is fine but if it takes 30 minutes, you are cutting it close.
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Hyatt has had THE best redemptions for me hands down.
Like it hasn’t even come close but as you stated though the footprint is much smaller as compared to Hilton and Marriott.
If you’re a road warrior I typically recommend Marriott as the main choice simply because they are everywhere.
Hilton has a large footprint but it’s not like Marriott the way I see it.
If you travel enough you most likely could go after both, one on spend and one on travel.
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Yes, you should be able to pay your insurance with a credit card.
I do it all the time to meet minimum spend.
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Sounds high, but if you are going in July or August, it doesn’t seem *way* out of line if this is the “plus” package that already includes gratuities, drink packages, and wifi.
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Will be extremely tight changing terminals
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Did you ever sign into your MSC voyagers account?
The match would be to MSC from Ocean Prime correct?
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Yes you can enter with Priority Pass but only 1 per year per card.