Check this out if you wanted to see how many points it cost us on each trip from 2024.
Use the individual trips as an example of what it costs for a family of 5 or 2 depending on the trip. You don’t have to travel as much as us to have a lot of fun with your points. I would even argue that you could have more fun by flying less often but making it business class. Or staying in nicer hotels than we do.
January-Big Island, Hawaii
$56 flight taxes and 77,000 points for 5 tickets on Southwest (2 free with Companion Pass).
Home Exchange $220 membership (I’ll count that this one time for all the rest of the year.) $150 cleaning fee.
$426 and 77,000 points total on flights and lodging.
February-Big Sur, California
2 flights for $22 taxes on Southwest and 7,650 points.
Alila Ventana-90,000 points for 2 nights and $0,
$22 and 97,650 points total.
April-Orlando and Clearwater Beach, Florida
75,000 points for 3 Southwest flights.
$56 flight taxes for 5 people.
$0 hotels for 6 nights at Orlando Hyatt Regency 15,000 points/night and Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach 25,000 points a night.
$56 and 195,000 points total.
May & June-England
Home exchange for a week=$0
5 nights Airbnb erased with 50,000 Capital One points
2 nights and 2 rooms in Castle hotel that used to be with Hyatt-48,000 points+ $76 extra kid fee.
$135 taxes and 53,000 points each for flights. So $675 and 265,000 points.
363,000 points and $751 total.
September-San Francisco, California
San Fran-3 flights on SW at 10,000 each and 2 free on Companion Pass. $56 and 30,000 total.
Laurel Inn hotel for 17,000×2 nights. Kissel uptown in Oakland for 1 night at 12,000 points. 46,000 points and $0.
SF total 76,000 points and $56.
September-Huntington Beach, California
1 flight for 8,000 points. $22 for 2 of us with 1 flying from with Companion Pass.
Stayed at the Hyatt Regency HB for 25,000 points a night
Total was 50,000 points and $22
October-Paris, Normandy, & Brittany, France
Lodging was all done with home exchange except one Airbnb night. Cost $130 but I had a $100 coupon so $30 total!
Flights were booked in the travel portal and cost 46,000 points each and $0.
230,000 points total and $30 for France.
November-Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis T-Swift weekend. 44,000 points for 1 ticket with SW and 1 free flight. $22 taxes for 2.
2 nights in Hyatt Regency Indy-24,000 points total.
Total 56,000 points and $22.
November-Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan
Flights for 2 in business class for 120,000 American Airlines points each round trip and $52 each.
Hyatt Centric Ginza for 25,000 points x 2 nights
Hyatt Regency Kyoto for 23,000×3
Andaz Tokyo 2 nights at 30,000 each.
419,000 points and $104 grand total.
November-Kauai, Hawaii
Flights to Kauai were $56 total and 36,000 points each for 3 people on Southwest, 2 free with companion pass.
6 nights at the Grand Hyatt Kauai at 30,000 points a night and $0.
288,000 points and $56 total.
Grand total cash spent was $1545 and 1,851,650 points!
I earn and burn points so I’m using them while I continue earning more.
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You can also checkout this blogpost for all the cards that help me earn points for stays with Hyatt.
Hope this helps!
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