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smiles33 New Member

January 2, 2017, 2:03 am

Hi all!

I have about 140K UR points from my CSR and 80K AmEx Gold points from signing up for both cards within the past few months. I anticipate earning another 20-30K UR points in the next few months and also just signed up for a new business card providing 80K UR points.

We don’t travel often (mostly road trips), but we have an SFO-TPE trip for a wedding later this year. I figure travel is better than cash back (especially with UR points), but should I use the points to upgrade from United’s Economy Plus to Business or save the points to book a separate family trip later? United’s Business class seems to have few fans…My husband is indifferent to upgrading.

We have 2 adults and 2 kids, so I’d either have to send just 1 adult to business class or save up to get all 4 of us there. We would need 240K United Miles (plus $4800) to upgrade 4 of us. Seems excessive now that I type it out but this is our first int’l trip and it’s only 1 week (so I want us to be as rested as possible).

Thanks for any advice!

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