Matt reviews Emirates First class, The Grand Hyatt Athens, Waldorf Astoria Rome, and Il Tournabuoni in Florence. He also details how he saved his flight home from becoming nearly disastrous after another classic Air France worker's strike. We start the episode off by reminiscing about deals gone by that we wish we had hit harder, faster, better, stronger.

I kick off my solo trip review with Singapore 777 first class and the Conrad Tokyo. Also, a bonus review of the Huntington Beach Hyatt Regency!

Thomas joins the show to give his OWN take on Japan airlines First class and Singapore First class as well as give his full reviews of the Park Hyatt Kyoto, Hyatt Place Kyoto, Hyatt Regency Kyoto, Hyatt House Shibuya, Caption Osaka, and Andaz Tokyo. Any Hyatt Hoarder planning a Japan trip can't miss this one.

We kick off a month of Japan trips with Justin from Award Travel 101, who details his spectacular trip for three to Tokyo, including: Japan Airlines First and business class, Grand Hyatt Tokyo, and Andaz Tokyo!

When my plans to spend five nights at the South Bank SLH in Turks and Caicos fell apart within minutes, some quick thinking and creative reward redemptions saved me from near catastrophe.

Julian discusses some of the most unknown and underrated award tools you've never heard of like: gondola.ai, MaxFHR.com, and suiteness.com. He also discusses his own tool, Pointspath, which is a unique way to see award space while searching around on Google Flights: pointspath.com

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Justin recaps his grand tour of several high end Hyatt all inclusive resorts and we rank them in order from best to worst. We also discuss strategies for leveraging Globalist status at a Hyatt All Inclusive where benefits can be elusive!

Paul compares the older but still amazing Cathay First Class to the alleged "world's best business class" seats on Qatar. We also get an in depth review of the Andaz Bali, SLH Viceroy Bali, and the Alila Uluwatu.

Andy tackles the second half of his insane ANA round the world ticket for 4, with Sri Lanka, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, and South Korea.

It's a crazy award trip so packed full of fun, we couldn't just fit it into 1 episode. Andy joins the pod to detail his ANA round the world ticket (FOR FOUR PEOPLE) to Portugal, Spain, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and South Korea! This is the first half of the trip, and surely won't disappoint.