Okay, I’m not sure what the title of the post has to do with anything, but I love Lucky Charms cereal, my “name” is Lucky, and Lucky Charms’ mascot is Irish, right? As you can see we have very high standards here at One Mile at a Time when it comes to post titles. Ever…
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can this award be booked online via the BA website, or does one have to call? I hate calling.
If only you'd have had better luck charming Dan Dooley or his schoolgirl squad...
Lucky, I actually have one of these bos-dub awards booked. My return is in coach as I didn't have enough miles at the time to book the wife and I rt in biz. Do you think it is worth the change fee to now redo the reservation and do rt in biz?
@ adam -- I'd definitely pay the 12,500 mile premium and change fee to get transatlantic business class, not just for the improved onboard experience, but premium check-in, security, and lounge access.
I'm looking forward to reading the rest of your posts because my family and I are going to Ireland in early September.
Really excited to read these reviews. I booked my Summer 2013 trip just yesterday when I have been waiting for schedules to open up. Because of this great redemption I am bringing over 7 people for only 175k avios and less than $900 in fees. Great deal! And really excited. Couple of things to point out:
1) This is only bookable on the phone.They waived the $25 booking fee because it's not possible to book online so the taxes and fees came out to $117 per ticket. Paying more than that you should call back.
2) There is plenty of redemption availability. I booked mine over a major holiday week and they had 9 domestic and 5 business class for my dates which depart and arrive on weekends.
3) BA cust reps are just plain nasty. But, they get the job done. Don't expect a nice converstaion. They are the "soup nazi's" of customer service.
4) Off topic but they have Miami to Lima, Peru for the same redemption on LAN airlines. Would be a great post if you can do this trip.
Really looking forward to the other posts. We will be spending a lot of time (a lot as in months and months) in Ireland in 2013.
I just booked a trip to dublin a few days ago, granted its not the avios deal, but i did manage to find a ticket on united for $500. Which for me is good since i need the miles to requalify. Looking forward to checking out the city, any tips on places to see or things to do?
I booked this trip (bos-dub) 2 months ago for 4 of us in business class. Couldn't get 4 seats on same plane, so, booked seperate planes about 2-3 hours apart. trip is in april. My plan is to contact BA a month or 2 before the trip and try to consolidate us onto the same plane and preferably change itinerary to Mco-dub (we are in s. florida. Also would like to change itinerary to include dublin-edinburgh on same ticket, but, of course that would increase the mileage over 3000. Any thoughts???
Hi Ben,
Just did this last month, but my final destination was past Dublin to Edinburgh. Couldn't get BA to release the seats for an additional award from DUB to EDI, so I had to book a separate RT for around $250. On the DUB-EDI flight there were only 4 pax, and I checked award availability every week until flight time. Do you think BA doesn't allow award tickets on Aer Lingus for travel past Ireland? Can't figure out why award space wasn't opened up.
@ Jon H. -- Will have tips in the Dublin section.
@ miamislick -- You would be charged 80,000 instead of 50,000 for departing out of Orlando, so you may just be better off booking that ticket to Boston separately, especially since I don't think they'll release four seats on one flight. For whatever reason Aer Lingus is really stingy about releasing intra-Europe award space, so you may be stuck buying that segment separately.
@ bo -- Wish I had an explanation, though Aer Lingus seems to just be very stingy with releasing award space intra-Europe.
Doing this same trip this weekend- cool coincidence you started posting the TR now...
OMG. I can't believe I ran into this. Lucky, we made almost the same itinerary. Currently staying at the Four Seasons, then in a couple of days going to the Ritz, then finally the Hilton Dublin Airport Hotel. I flew BA F though to LHR then ET to Dublin. So far, plenty fun. Looking forward to comparing experiences once you finish writing the rest. Ciao.
post scriptum:
See you at the Chicago Seminars...