Deals for This Weekend - January 10, 11

If you're looking for a quick getaway this weekend, that doesn't break the budget, have a look at a few of these Secret Saver hotels.  

If you have kids, these rates will work with 2 adults with 2 children.

I am highlighting 1 bargain rate hotel in each city.

These rates are booking through Expedia.com.au, for this Friday and Saturday nights, January 10-11, 2014.  

Adelaide
4.5* $346 for this weekend

Auckland
4.5* $297 for this weekend  

Brisbane
4.5* $368 for this weekend 

Gold Coast
4* $412 for this weekend 


Melbourne
4.5* $382 for this weekend

Perth
4.5* $307 this weekend

Sydney 
3.5* $487 this weekend

Buy Frontier Miles and See the US for Cheap(er)

Frontier Airlines serves many major US cities in lots of states, though not all.  But they do cover most of the ones you'd want to visit, such as New York, Texas, Florida, and many, many more.

Of note is that they fly to Mexico, Costa Rica, and Alaska, at far lower redemption prices than other major airlines.  This is an award sweet spot for buying and redeeming miles, and especially when they are running discounted points sales, like now until 14 January, 2014.

Check out their route map if you want to see exactly where they fly.  

Currently Points.com is running a promotion to sell Frontier miles for US$.0179 each.  This means that you could fly from any one of their US locations, to any other, for US$181, and return for $362.  Nice!  Including Alaska!

A ticket to Alaska usually sets you back US$400 one-way from most cities in the US.  

I did a cost analysis to buy points with the current promotion, on a trip from:
New York to Alaska, on to Florida, and back again to New York.

A trip to those 3 locations would cost you +US$1,000 cash or more.  

But to buy 30,000 points right now, which would take you to those same 3 places, would cost you just US$591.  

If you have any future trips coming up to the US, buy points now so you can save money later.

Hat Tip to MileValue.

Deals for This Weekend - January 3, 4

If you're looking for a quick getaway this weekend, that doesn't break the budget, have a look at a few of these Secret Saver hotels.  

If you have kids, these rates will work with 2 adults with 2 children.

I am highlighting 1 bargain rate hotel in each city.

These rates are booking through Expedia.com.au, for this Friday and Saturday nights, January 3-4, 2014.  

Adelaide
4.5* $355 for this weekend

Auckland
4.5* $263 for this weekend  

Brisbane
4* $253 for this weekend 

Gold Coast
4* $336 for this weekend 


Melbourne
4.5* $432 for this weekend

Perth
4.5* $346 this weekend

Sydney 
3.5* $388 this weekend

Deals for This Weekend

If you're looking for a quick getaway this weekend, that doesn't break the budget, have a look at a few of these Secret Saver hotels.  As always, there must be a few hotels hoping to fill up, since weekends are their lowest earning days.  Save some money yourself while having a nice weekend away.  

If you have kids, these rates will work with 2 adults with 2 kids.

I am highlighting 1 bargain rate hotel in each city.

I'll also include Auckland for the Kiwi readers.  

These rates are booking through Expedia.com.au, for this Friday and Saturday nights, December 20-21, 2013.  

If this is of help to you I might just make it regular thing, so please let me know what you think!

Final Chance - Buy American Airlines Points for a Discount

If you saw the earlier post about buying American Airlines points, and redeeming them on Qantas flights, then you'll know that today is the final day to signup for an American Airlines account, if you don't already have one, and then buy the points while still on sale before 31 December, 2013.  

In that post we covered a number of scenarios as to how how you could redeem those points for great trips you'd otherwise pay much more for in cash.

You really need to start thinking out of the box to consider the multitude of ways you can make a trip with points and extracting value from this deal.  Feel free to leave a comment or contact me if you have a question.

Today, I'll post once more about this, so you can see why you should consider buying points to use for a future trip.  I'll be showing you how to make a trip from the Gold Coast to several destinations, but your starting point could just as easily be almost any city in Australia or New Zealand.

Queenstown - Jump-Off Point for a Ski Holiday

A Deal You Shouldn't Miss - Act Before 16 December 2013

In the 1st post of this blog, I outlined some goals.  It was to help Aussies find and redeem points on local airlines, or even take advantage of airline 'sweet spots', using foreign airlines to help us redeem points for incredible value here in Australia and New Zealand.  I should add at this time, that this blog is good value for our Kiwi cousins as well, since they can benefit from these offers also!

Buy Points Right Now for Cheap - Redeem for 'Sweet Spots'

AirAsia Cheap Holiday Flights - Now

If the post from a couple days ago got you thinking about a holiday in Asia you should know that AirAsia has some great incredible deals right now.

If you're still trying to decide what do in December, or January, there are still some great deals to be had, if you don't already have Qantas or Velocity points to redeem for a trip.  

Traveling With My Wife's Parents to China on Airasia