209. Hyatt Regency Tamaya: The Ultimate Mom’s Trip to Albuquerque (plus a surprise at the end you won't see coming!)

Yes, let's do it, let's do it.

I'm so excited to talk about this.

Starting from the top, we both flew American.

You booked on American, booked via Alaska-

Yes

... which that, I'm assuming you ...

Did you do it the old way with the loophole transfer?

Yes.

I don't have an Alaska Atmos card at this point, so any Alaska miles that I have are from Amex pre the loophole closing.

So I sent Amex Membership Rewards over to Hawaiian that I then sent to Alaska.

That and surveys.

Yeah.

I did earn a little stash of Alaska points through doing some surveys, which I posted about on Instagram.

Always make sure you're following us, because if we see little tricks like that, we will certainly repost them so that you can take advantage of them.

So I did book through Alaska, but it was all pre-loophole.

Now, if someone wants to be able to book American Airlines flights now and you don't have miles with Alaska, Qantas, that is still an option.

So if you have, say, Amex Membership Rewards points, you can no longer get them over to Alaska, you can look for AA on AA metal, AA flights through Qantas and book some pretty good prices that way too.

too.For sure.

All of my Alaska points are now from a Hawaiian card, and everything's since been converted to the Atmos program.

[clears throat] But I actually booked this one directly 'cause it was cheaper, which rarely happens.

So we both had our American flights, and we made sure to line them up so that they routed through Dallas together-

Yes

... uh, so that we could meet up, we could do a little lounge hopping, and then we could carry on to Albuquerque together.

Although we, we weren't truly together, 'cause someone, someone bougie-

Someone booked first ahead of time-