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Levon Edwards

Levon Edwards

Lovan Edwards is the Social Media Manager at 10xTravel and a credit card points & miles expert who appears as a guest on the Takeoff podcast and hosts 10xTravel group trips.

Sep 9, 2026

TravisHOST
7:13
Am I right, Lavon?
7:14
Absolutely.
7:15
Absolutely.
7:16
There is, if you're wanting to save some points, The Virgin Atlantic program has to be looked at.
7:22
We have a full step-by-step guide to teach you exactly how you're able to book that because it is a little nuance, a little bit, a lot more complicated than a normal points booking, but you can get there for about a 13,000 points from the East Coast in economy and 16 and a half thousand from the West Coast.
7:44
And you just cannot beat that value.
7:46
And even better than that, you can get premium economy for 26,000 to about 34,000, depending if you're leaving from the East Coast or West Coast.
EmilyHOST
10:16
And how does tipping work? Like, is there tipping expected above and beyond? Do you tip kind of each person that you encounter while there, or is that kind of baked into the price as well?
EmilyHOST
11:36
Yeah.
11:41
I knew I wanted to visit the continent of Africa and it was just a matter of of where.
11:46
So initially I was looking at the Seychelles and I thought that would obviously have been a nice place.
11:52
But then I got the idea like, you know, why don't I do a safari? So I knew there's a couple of different areas where you can really get a great safari experience.
12:01
Kenya is one Cape Town or South Africa, Botswana.
12:07
But I just ended up choosing Kenya.
12:10
I think it was probably the award availability.
BrycePANELIST
12:46
So you tell us, Levon, how did you end up booking this trip? What airline routing kind of points did you use? How did it all come together from that standpoint?

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