Should You Redeem POINTS or Pay CASH for Travel? (How to Decide)

[@frankwang8611]

Great to see a Canadian doing CANADIAN MARKET credit cards and travel! Keep up the good work lad.

[@texasboy5117]

Before I retired I traveled extensively and always tried to stay at Marriott properties. I have Platinum Elite for life status. I always try to cash my points for hotel stays when the hotel is $500 or higher. This seems to work well to get value. The Luxury Collection really fills this kind of hotel well for trips to Europe. You have a great point on not getting to many points you don’t lose.

[@PrinceofTravel]

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[@joeykim373]

Haha the background changes caught me off guard man! 😂😂😂

[@PrinceofTravel]

The benefits of hotel hopping 😁

[@travelwithjen]

Great video! Never really thought about this in depth until now.

[@PrinceofTravel]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@garrettsagen4854]

This is great, thanks for sharing all this info and breaking it down + links. Excited to get after this.

[@PrinceofTravel]

Glad it was helpful!

[@patriciak826]

Great video! Just wanted to point out that the links you alluded to in the top right corner haven't been included (yet).

[@PrinceofTravel]

You sure? I can see them on my end. Maybe give it a refresh / try a different device / disable your ad blocker?

[@BANGER23TV]

Nice Break Down Ricky!! Learning So Much From Your Videos Keep it Up!!

[@PrinceofTravel]

More to come!

[@sebastianwaseskuk8669]

Why do we deduct the taxes and fees when calculating cents per mile?

[@mowkambo8289]

My god your so smart! How do you learn all that information!

[@Exp291]

Great video Ricky! What is the best CPP value you have gotten in your travel career?

[@PrinceofTravel]

Must've been around 31 cpp on Cathay Pacific First Class... 70,000 Alaska miles for a $21,000 ticket!

[@justinthomason3253]

Hi Prince! Your videos are awesome thanks for your time and effort! This is what it says on the Air Canada Website as you know, Every seat, every Air Canada flight, no restrictions Any Air Canada seat you see available to buy in cash, you can use your points to redeem for it. With every fare class included and no blackout periods, you choose when to use your points..... Well I just rang and spoke to Air Canada as I had found seats on an Air Canada flight with an AC.....flight number and they told me it was not available on Points? I have 25k Status and a lot of points but can't use them. As you are affiliated with Air Canada and their Aeroplan can you please comment on this? They are saying one thing but not doing it!? Thanks in advance! Also, has anyone else had this problem??

[@PrinceofTravel]

Which flight was it?

[@justinthomason3253]

@@PrinceofTravel air Canada AC6092

[@justinthomason3253]

@@PrinceofTravel Hi Prince any word, please?

[@PrinceofTravel]

@@justinthomason3253 Looks like it's a codeshare for LAX-AKL on Air New Zealand? This would be a partner-operated flight, not an Air Canada operated flight, so it would still be subject to the normal award availability patterns (and Air New Zealand is pretty notorious for being stingy when releasing award space).

[@justinthomason3253]

@@PrinceofTravel but let’s be honest Air Canada markets that every air Canada seat on every air Canada flight is available on points and they market this flight as Air Canada with an air Canada flight number. So their marketing claim is simple not true.

[@Andys_venture]

Hey Ricky, I had a question for you. I was wondering if there is an Easier way to look for flights when I’m trying to redeem my American Express points for a flight that is first class. For me I know you have to do research but I literally have never been able to find availability.

[@abitofmymind]

Ring the airline directly

[@maysheng7]

Great video! Thx so much!

[@PrinceofTravel]

You are very welcome!

[@ktanner438]

Whatever you do, don't pay 2.5% FX markup

[@PrinceofTravel]

Shameless money grab, plain and simple, thankfully we have some customer-friendly options like HSBC 😉

[@douglasharrislane2748]

well at some point you are going to have to redeem points OR you are going to loose them.