Sentences with phrase «for expensive award»

If you redeem more miles for an expensive award, you deserve to get higher priority.

So for expensive award flights or hotel stays, you'll often spend fewer miles or points by transferring other flexible points to travel partners.

Not exact matches

This Grobag baby sleep bag is quite expensive in my view, but is really good and has won several awards for best nursery product in the UK.

To that end, he's looking for a change in state law that would allow the city, like the state, to award contracts to MWBEs even if they are not proposed the least expensive qualified bid.

Since it would be impossible — and really expensive — for you to try every single long - lasting lipstick, waterproof mascara, and miracle defrizzer, we created the Brides Beauty Awards.

It won the first Academy Award for best picture back in 1927, establishing a tradition of silliness that hasn't been broken to this day, but there is some thrilling flying footage and impressively expensive spectacle.

Even an award - winning documentary is only seen by a relatively small number of people, so there's an argument to be made for dramatizing the story with expensive production values and well - known actors portraying the characters.

It's launching a pair of expensive - looking period - set miniseries, a long - anticipated Marvel spin - off, a sophomore run for one of the best TV cult comedies of the past 10 years and their big - league awards contender film of the year.

Carmakers found that over 100 of its models — many expensive cars for which they'd become accustomed to getting Top Safety Pick awards — were suddenly rated «Poor.»

ARLINGTON, Va. — Toyota Motor Corp. has racked up two more 2015 Top Safety Pick + awards from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety — one for the Lexus ES, a luxury midsize car, and another for the Scion iA, a new minicar and the least expensive vehicle to come with standard front crash prevention.

With a starting price of less than $ 16,000 (MSRP), the 2016 Scion iA is quite possibly the least expensive new vehicle to earn the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's (IIHS) «Top Safety Pick +» award.

The awards sponsor, Jenkins Group (an expensive publishing service provider), also conducts the Axiom Awards for business books, the IPPY Awards for general fiction and nonfiction, the eLit Awards for ebooks, and the Moonbeam Awards for children's awards sponsor, Jenkins Group (an expensive publishing service provider), also conducts the Axiom Awards for business books, the IPPY Awards for general fiction and nonfiction, the eLit Awards for ebooks, and the Moonbeam Awards for children's Awards for business books, the IPPY Awards for general fiction and nonfiction, the eLit Awards for ebooks, and the Moonbeam Awards for children's Awards for general fiction and nonfiction, the eLit Awards for ebooks, and the Moonbeam Awards for children's Awards for ebooks, and the Moonbeam Awards for children's Awards for children's books.

The extra 1 % difference in everyday awards will make up for more than the annual fee of the more expensive card at that point.

This can be very expensive, yet if a case is heard under the «small claims» system, costs are not awarded (although a judge could decide either side may need to pay for a limited amount of the other party's expenses), making it a much less risky bet.

This often makes economy award tickets too expensive to make sense, but the fees are much more reasonable when you're redeeming for first class.

If that seems too expensive to you though, you can buy the 55,000 miles (40,000 + 16,000 bonus) you need for the award ticket for just $ 1182.50 including taxes.

Majority of airlines require flyers to buy more expensive tickets if they wish to cancel and normally charge a cancellation fee for award bookings, unless the flyers have some status with the respective airline.

From my point of view, this award trip was quite close to ideal: I redeemed points I earned extremely cheaply for relatively expensive reservations.

Stay in the most expensive luxury hotels and resorts and holiday homes, enjoy a spa treatment every day, drink fine wines and eat in award winning restaurants, have a private chauffer show you the sites of the region or charter your own private boat for the day to see the Great Barrier Reef or fly a helicopter over the magnificent waterfalls of the surrounding mountains.

Those award flights may not be for the routes you find useful, or they may include especially expensive awards that don't make good use of your miles.

Award stays can be as cheap as 5,000 points per night for a Category 1 property and as expensive as 30,000 points for a Category 7 property.

Some frequent fliers, known as «travel hackers,» take advantage of distance - based programs by earning lots of miles on cheap flights and then redeeming them for more expensive award tickets.

The reasons are numerous but they boil down to four main points: 1) no published award chart, 2) horribly expensive / inconsistent dynamic pricing for awards, 3) constant devaluations (with no notice), and 4) uninformed phone agents.

The miles I earn essentially double my money by redeeming for expensive domestic awards and international luxury vacations.

Even if you're willing to shell out the miles for an award seat on that route, it's very expensive.

The British Airways award chart is distance based and they also have a penchant for adding expensive fuel surcharges to long - haul flights.

Remember that United's award redemptions for first class and business class seats are some of the most expensive in the game.

Remember, even the most expensive Hyatt property only costs 22,000 points for a standard free night award, and some can be had for much less.

They charge extra for connecting flights, and business and first class awards can be very expensive.

I was frustrated to discover how hard it was to transfer those points to a Star Alliance partner for award travel on Lufthansa without incurring expensive fuel surcharges.

Although I also hold top - tier status with Starwood I find a lot of their awards to be expensive and I prefer to use my Starpoints for airline transfers.

When an individual hotel becomes more expensive, it becomes more expensive for the hotel chain (Starwood, Hilton Hotels, etc.) to pay the individual hotel for that room when someone books it on... [Read more...] about SPG Announces Annual 2014 Hotel Award Category Adjustments

This earning option may work better for some people, especially less frequent guests who won't earn the larger bonus point awards or those who often stay at less expensive hotels.

Normally the best use of frequent flyer miles is for international premium cabin awards because these are expensive tickets if you pay with cash but not very expensive if you pay with miles.

Most changes and cancellations require a $ 45 fee per ticket, and there are no fees for «Flex Awards,» which are more expensive.

But the most expensive award ticket is for first class between Africa and South America.

The most expensive Conrad property was Conrad Bora Bora Nui at $ 976 during the summer but we've already established that the Maldives Conrad gets much more expensive ($ 3,000 +) for standard awards in the winter.

More expensive first class awards on partner airlines mean I now only consider using them for international business class.

Maybe you need to buy a more expensive refundable ticket for the primary passenger, or the companion ticket needs to be booked using much more limited award space.

For those who enjoy earning miles and points for award travel, it hurts to pay rent and not earn points, especially if you live in an expensive city — seriously, why am I still putting up with DC rent pricFor those who enjoy earning miles and points for award travel, it hurts to pay rent and not earn points, especially if you live in an expensive city — seriously, why am I still putting up with DC rent pricfor award travel, it hurts to pay rent and not earn points, especially if you live in an expensive city — seriously, why am I still putting up with DC rent prices?

One way awards start at 4,500 Avios for flights outside the U.S. and 7,500 Avios for those originating or terminating in the U.S. Even with the slightly more expensive price for U.S. short haul awards, they are still cheaper than domestic awards on the big 3 US carriers which are typically 10,000 - 12,500 each way.

That makes it easier to accumulate enough points for more expensive — and typically more valuable — awards.

For example, Starwood has the highest award costs due to its expensive Category 6 and 7 awards, but it offers a generous elite bonus.

A FlyerTalk member Lionheart revealed what looks like a leaked look at IHG's new award pricing for 2018 and it looks like we might be seeing a pretty substantial devaluation that could make redemptions a lot more expensive for top - tier properties.

However, this could be a great companion to a one - way award so you can save some miles for a time when flight prices are more expensive.

The most common use for JMB awards are to fly the famous Emirates first class after Alaska made redeeming for first class on Emirates prohibitively expensive.

Its distance makes it the most expensive domestic destinations you can travel to, and a popular choice for award travelers.

But for first class, or if you want to buy a more expensive award with last seat availability, the prices are pretty much the same.

> Sunday is the most expensive day for award trips — tickets cost 34 % more on Sundays than on Tuesdays or Wednesdays, which are the cheapest days.

Some of the best values for Delta miles are available by booking short - haul domestic economy awards on routes with expensive cash prices.