August 5th, 2011 at 6:47 pm

You got 400K Miles, You're Single ... where do you go? - Page 5 - FlyerTalk Forums said,

[...] Originally Posted by Igor718 Ok, so I have decided………… I have currently: AA = 330K BA = 190K CO = 300K Delta 80K miles. My trip …. NYC to Hong Kong (about 2 days there) Hong Kong to Bangkok Thailand (most of the time want to spend in Thailand) Thailand to Singapore (a couple of days) Singapore to Bali (a few days on the beach) Bali to NYC 2 weeks for entire trip. What do you guys think??? How many miles will I need to travel first class? Which miles program will I need to tap into? thank you ! I've actually been looking into a Southeast asia trip myself. Given your itinerary, I'd say Cathay Pacific first class – 150,000 BA miles round trip: JFK-SFO-HKG-BKK-SIN-HKG-JFK. Poke around the BA site and see what sort of availability you can find. You'll have to be flexible in your dates, of course. I haven't had much trouble finding first class SFO-HKG-BKK in June/July. You'll just have to link up the segments you want. You get free stopovers with BA, but I don't see an easy way to get to Bali on Cathay from SIN. You may just want to do a Star Alliance intra-asia award SIN-DPS and back. Or, maybe do an open jaw and get a cheap one way to DPS from SIN, and then do SIN-HKG-SFO-JFK. Or, just forget Bali and do someplace like Phuket instead. If you want some inspiration and tips, the One Mile at a Time blog has some pretty epic trips all on award miles: http://boardingarea.com/blogs/onemil…-report-index/ [...]

April 8th, 2013 at 9:02 am

Researching a Trip -- Trip Reports | We Fly Free said,

[...] the St. Regis Bali has me beyond excited for our trip there in May.  I also highly rec­om­mend Lucky’s trip reports from his blog, One Mile at a Time, and user SFO777 on Fly­ertalk–they are the undis­puted [...]