Case study · City break
Vienna, August 2024
2 flights, 1 night in 1 hotel, 16 days.
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Austria
Montenegro
Short answerVienna in August 2024: 2 flights and 1 hotel night for $110 paid, against a documented comparison value of $568. We used 9,600 points and miles, 4.8¢ per point on average. Anything paid in cash appears without a comparison value. The comparison value is not money paid out.
Key figures
$110 paid, $568 documented comparison value. The 81% difference came from 9,600 points and miles.
Paid
$110
flights, hotels and transfers
Comparison value
$568
documented cash value
Difference
81%
$458 documented
Points and miles
9,600
4.8¢ per point
At a glance
- Airlines
- Austrian Airlines
- Booking classes
- Economy (2)
- Flight numbers
- Outbound flight Airport → Vienna
- OS725 VIE → TIV
- Airports
- Vienna (VIE), Tivat (TIV)
- Hotels
- Lindner Hotel Belvedere, Vienna (1 night)
Day by day
27 August 2024
AirportVienna VIEEconomy
- Paid
- $55
- Value
- $232
- points
- 2,300
- per point
- 7.7¢
28 August 2024
Vienna VIETivat TIVEconomy
- Paid
- $55
- Value
- $201
- points
- 2,300
- per point
- 6.3¢
10 September 2024
Lindner Hotel Belvedere
- Paid
- $0
- Value
- $135
- points
- 5,000
- per point
- 2.7¢
The whole trip
| Category | Paid | Comparison value | Difference | Points and miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flights (2) | $110 | $433 | $323 75% | 4,600 |
| Hotels (1 stay, 1 night) | $0 | $135 | $135 100% | 5,000 |
| Total (3 bookings) | $110 | $568 | $458 81% | 9,600 |
Editorial noteThis case study is our own trip analysis and not tax, legal or financial advice. Award prices, availability and cash prices change all the time.
Terms in this trip
- Award ticket: An award ticket is a flight paid for with miles or points instead of cash; taxes, fees and surcharges almost always still have to be paid in money.
- Award availability: Award availability is the number of seats an airline releases on a given flight for redemption with miles, which is usually far smaller than the number of seats still on sale.
- Cents per point: Cents per point is the measure of a redemption's value: the cash price avoided, minus any co-payment, divided by the number of points spent.
- Hotel award category: A hotel award category is the price tier a loyalty programme assigns to a property, from which the points price per night follows.
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