More than a year ago, I started planning out a tour of Asia. Since time was on my side, I had the opportunity to really leverage all the points I had been accumulating for some time and find the best deals since I was flexible.<\/p>\n
Now that the trip is over, I think I’ve convinced a few more people that points can have a huge value, and can honestly say I had the trip of a lifetime. I would have had a trip of a lifetime regardless of points, but I was able to gain more than $20,000 in benefits for just a little time and effort in building points, and redeeming them.<\/p>\n
I’ll be adding full details soon, but here’s the summary of point redemptions:<\/p>\n
1. Flights<\/strong>: 2. Hotels<\/strong>: More than a year ago, I started planning out a tour of Asia. Since time was on my side, I had the opportunity to really leverage all the points I had been accumulating for some time and find the best deals since I was flexible. Now that the trip is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,14,15,10,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– 3 RT business class fares on Cathay Pacific to\/from JFK\/HKG.
\n– 3 RT economy fares on Cathay Pacific to\/from HKG\/SIN.<\/p>\n
\n– HI Express Hong Kong Soho
\n– Sheraton Singapore
\n– Conrad Koh Samui
\n– Intercontinental Hong Kong (TST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"