It has no ideas :( Also if you have start/end date the length is redundant. Could auto populate or ignore/non require if start/end is filled in
Might be a dumb question, but wondering if anyone knows. Lyrtch Booked a comfort+ ticket on concur b/c it was cheaper than main. Got bumped to 1st class. I need to change my flight to earlier, but Comfort+ is sold out (just middles), main is 70 more, and there are two open 1st class seats. Can I call Delta's line and try to move 1st to 1st? Change fee mostly doesn't matter b/c it is work, but main is +70 and 1st is +300, so too large of a gap. Idk if the upgrade helps moving flights based on current seat cabin vs original booking cabin
When you say "it has no ideas" like it doesn't return you anything? Or doesn't give you any good responses? Re: start / end date, I'm trying to get to a point where it can make more specific recos based on flight/hotel prices & available awards. So if you want to travel for 5 days within a said 20 day window, it would give you the right optimization of dates to travel. Not close to having that functionality yet, but good feedback that maybe it's unnecessary for now. Thank you!
Good Effort! Good Game! Fun idea... I do wonder about how useful it is to report a price in points for what could be a fairly wide date range. Specifically in the case of the award flights, there isn't enough detail to know precisely where the reported pricing was found...
Might be that your start date & end date is 4 days & your requesting a 5 day trip time? Not sure exactly how the logic is reading that so will need to check. Try kicking you end date out a week and see if it works
None of the LLMs can check up to date information on flight prices or awards, so this is far from accurate. More a starting point on what those routes *could* cost. I'm trying to figure out a workflow that can solve that, but I am so new at this it's tough. Seat.Aero is the best service I've found for finding available/accurate award info, but I can't get GPT to use that service
It might have been due to conflicting day length with start/end date. I think I had a week selected, then 8 days and that confused everything
Folks that have been to the Baha Mar - is it suitable for a 4 and 6 year old? I'm on the verge of booking a family vacation there to burn some Hyatt points. Not really looking closely into all-inclusive since our trip won't revolve around food & drinks.
Ok a new version is live taking some of your feedback into account 1. Now only need to provide a month (or months) you're looking to travel with # of days. The responses will provide recs based on the weather/crowds/historical data in that time 2. More robust context on the responses with advice on award flights, etc Every once in a while it errors but just try submitting again. LMK if it's better/worse! Thanks
Is there a consensus on what major hotel chain (Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott) is the best for reward travel? I have always been a Marriott person, but their hotels in the markets I have to frequent kind of suck. Switched to Hilton and so far my experience has been that the hotels in those particular markets are nicer, but good god they are always trying to sell me shit. It's like their company is run by the Wolf of Wallstreet or some shit, it's always "can I interest you in this or that." Annoying and I don't feel like the earn rate is very high, or at least not as high as with Marriott, but no clue if that's actually true it's just a vibes feeling rn. Hyatt seems to have a phenomenal transfer rate when coupled with Chase, but the earn rate with stays seem to be pretty low. Also I usually stay like 20-25 nights (so not a huge amount, but fair) a year out for work and it seems to require a lot more nights to get status benefits on Hilton and Hyatt rather than Marriott. Honestly just looking for people to tell me if there's a huge difference and one is way better, because if there's not a big difference maybe people should just go with personal preference. I think there's a whole thread about this but I am being lazy
It seems like Marriott is probably better but I use Hilton because their hotels seem to have a higher floor. I’m usually not staying in a big city for work travel and Marriotts floor is way lower there than any Hilton properties. That being said marriotts have a higher ceiling and seem to be a little more prevalent in foreign cities but I’ve never done a full study. Can’t really go wrong between Hilton and Marriott. Hyatt seems smaller. Status doesn’t really do much outside of earn you more points in my 7-8 years experience of being either diamond with Hilton or titanium with Marriott
IMO, Hyatt is really the only program worth focusing on at this point unless you do crazy work travel and can bank 1M Marriott points a year
Im in same boat. Been marriott person but just never feel like points go far enough + like you said mkt offerings can vary. Thought about switching to IHG bc of Kimpton. Also hotels.com moving from 10% to 2% was not enjoyable.
I'm a Marriott man, but a travel very frequently for work and a good amount of that is international.
I just signed up as a parent chaperone for a two week trip in 2026 for my son’s high school—London, Caen/Normandy, Paris, Cologne, and Berlin. My son and I can add two days at the end of Berlin. We have done Paris-Switzerland-Italy already. Vienna should be our choice, right?
Prague if you're down to let him drink with you & have some fun If not, I thought Vienna was incredible and would highly recommend
If it’s only two days and you’re coming from Berlin then I would choose Prague given it’s much closer than Vienna.
I hopefully fixed those issues & made the logic a bit more simple if you can try again at some point. Thx man
Turks was great. Lovely beaches. Not a lot else to do but beaches but we had a terrific stand up paddleboard experience in the mangroves with SUP Provo, great company who really seems to give a shit about the local ecosystem and not being too invasive to the animals. Had some great meals too. Nice place, very expensive.
It's like the east coast version of Maui at this point. First did a family vacation there over 20 years ago, and it's wild to see how much it's changed.
Had same thought when I was there. Wild expensive. But at least all the expensive food was really good
We generally eat more casual so it wasn’t as bad for us. But yeah Maui is about the right comparison
I think we are going back to Turks in July. Trying to get the same villa we had before right on Smith Reef.
Yep the snorkeling was so good. We loved it. We would walk down the beach a bit and just float back down to where our villa was.
Speaking of the Caribbean, we're looking at going to the Park Hyatt in St Kitts & Nevis later this year. Anyone ever stayed there or just have thoughts on those islands in general?
Looking at my flight to London in a few weeks. Flying Delta comfort+ and the upgrade to the next class (not Delta One) is 560 bucks for the flight over and there are a lot of empty seats there. Do you think they lower the price closer to the flight or do they just upgrade people with status (I wouldn't be anywhere near the top of the list for an upgrade).
International doesn't get free upgrades like that. Price is set by algorithm so all based on what they think they can sell. Would just periodically check