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            Mileage Debate: Bali vs. Japan

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            Well I was hoping that booking our tickets this year would be a little less painful this year --but then again, we ARE dealing with airlines and miles so I probably should've known better.

            As some of you know, we were planning on booking a mileage award to go to Bali and Java for 14 days in May. Well after spending hours upon hours on the phone with Continental, I'm about this close to giving up.

            Without boring you with the minute details...in a nutshell, the past 48hrs have been a wealth of frustration and mixed messaging from the airline. Not to mention overlengthy explanations on the restrictions Continental has on award redemption for their various partner airlines--coupled with the few available flights that only had 1 business class seat (I doubt my better half will want to fly on a different flight than me)...I'll leave it at this: we're faced with two choices:

            A) waiting and trying ad infinitum for a flight with 2 biz seats to open up to Bali

            or

            B) putting Bali on hold and booking a trip to Japan (which can be confirmed immediately) on Northwest

            I'm somewhat torn myself...as I really had my heart set on Bali. But I also don't really want to deal with the headache of calling the airline every week for the next however many months in the hopes that something might open up. Not thrilled about the idea of Northwest, but that's not really the important part, I guess.

            So I look to you guys, who have really helped us out so many years in a row in steering us in the right direction.

            Japan IS tempting, as we've never been and I hear May (cherry blossoms and all) is a great time to go. But I honestly know NOTHING about planning a trip there, so I would really have to start from scratch. I'd hate to miss out on Indonesia, as I imagined it to be so magical and otherworldly, but my friends who have been to Japan tell me that I'd experience much of the same there.

            Given the options, what would you do?

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