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Bratislava, June 2025
1 flight, 2 nights in 1 hotel, 3 days.
AustriaSlovakia
Austria
Slovakia
Short answerBratislava in June 2025: 1 flight and 2 hotel nights for $90 paid, against a documented comparison value of $533. We used 14,500 points and miles, 3.1¢ per point on average. Anything paid in cash appears without a comparison value. The comparison value is not money paid out.
Key figures
$90 paid, $533 documented comparison value. The 83% difference came from 14,500 points and miles.
Paid
$90
flights, hotels and transfers
Comparison value
$533
documented cash value
Difference
83%
$443 documented
Points and miles
14,500
3.1¢ per point
At a glance
- Airlines
- Austrian Airlines
- Booking classes
- Economy (1)
- Flight numbers
- OS524 VCE → VIE
- Airports
- Venice (VCE), Vienna (VIE)
- Hotels
- Lindner Hotel Bratislava, Bratislava (2 nights)
Day by day
11 June 2025
Venice VCEVienna VIEEconomy
- Paid
- $90
- Value
- $111
- points
- 4,500
- per point
- 0.5¢
Lindner Hotel Bratislava
- Paid
- $0
- Value
- $422
- points
- 10,000
- per point
- 4.2¢
The whole trip
| Category | Paid | Comparison value | Difference | Points and miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flights (1) | $90 | $111 | $21 19% | 4,500 |
| Hotels (1 stay, 2 nights) | $0 | $422 | $422 100% | 10,000 |
| Total (2 bookings) | $90 | $533 | $443 83% | 14,500 |
Proof
Excerpts from the booking confirmations, personal data and booking codes made unreadable.
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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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