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Miles & Even More reader Pranay recently took his family on a vacation to the Far East. His trip covered Hong Kong (mainly for his young son), Bali (R&R for the family as a whole) and Jakarta (because he was in the area!). He consulted us extensively in preparation for this trip, and we were able to point him to some great uses for his limited points and miles balances (we did not charge anything, because we don’t run a paid service!). Pranay was keen that his success story in terms of using those points and miles be made known to the larger readership base of our blog, because of the amount of value one can generate using points and miles, if worked out well. Over to Pranay... I have always been a miles and points collector, with some history of past redemptions. My family and I planned a vacation earlier this summer, and we wanted to use our points and miles for this. However, we had to maximise on what we had, which wasn’t a great deal as you can see below: 58,000 Etihad Gue...

Those of you that have been following our blog might know that I recently completed my first mattress run at the Crowne Plaza Adyar Park, Chennai . I promised to write a review of my stay, so here you go. My stay was booked for a Saturday night, and included breakfast for one on the Sunday morning. I reached the hotel around 5 pm on the Saturday evening. I first went up to the IHG Rewards Club priority counter, where I was met with a reasonably friendly “Hi” from the agent at the counter. And that was it! Instead, I was asked to go to one of the other check-in desks. I really didn’t have a problem with this since I was the only person checking in at the time, but it all seemed rather strange!  IHG Rewards Club Priority check-in desk On the other hand, I had four or five agents hover around me during check-in. I’m guessing this was because this is a relatively new hotel to join the IHG fold (it was an SPG hotel earlier), and was running rather low on occupancy (I was told, just unde...