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chrisinhouston · 04-10-2009, 01:43 PM

Well, now it's a definate yes for going as I booked my ticket! Great price but a long flight. Houston to Newark is ok but Newark to Shanghai is a 14 hour flight.

My wife was scheduled that week to be on business in Lima, Ohio (Yippee!!!) but now she is not so I convinced her to take some vacation days and go and she can cash in a $500 Continental voucher towards her ticket that had to be used by July. That means her RT ticket would only be about $212 and we both will get double Elite Qualifying miles because of a special; that works out to about 35000 EQ miles which will put me at Platinum and her at Gold. And the great thing is that by her going we can stay at the Hilton in Shanghai (5 star hotel) for free by using points. We may have to pay for a few things like the broadband but that is ok.

More to come as things transpire.

04-10-2009, 01:43 PM	#6
chrisinhouston Professor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Houston TX Posts: 1,857	Well, now it's a definate yes for going as I booked my ticket! Great price but a long flight. Houston to Newark is ok but Newark to Shanghai is a 14 hour flight. My wife was scheduled that week to be on business in Lima, Ohio (Yippee!!!) but now she is not so I convinced her to take some vacation days and go and she can cash in a $500 Continental voucher towards her ticket that had to be used by July. That means her RT ticket would only be about $212 and we both will get double Elite Qualifying miles because of a special; that works out to about 35000 EQ miles which will put me at Platinum and her at Gold. And the great thing is that by her going we can stay at the Hilton in Shanghai (5 star hotel) for free by using points. We may have to pay for a few things like the broadband but that is ok. More to come as things transpire.