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Ponta Delgada and Lisbon, August 2025
4 flights, 12 nights in 4 hotels, 13 days.
Portugal
Portugal
Short answerPonta Delgada and Lisbon in August 2025: 4 flights and 12 hotel nights for $1,480 paid, against a documented comparison value of $4,245. We used 147,400 points and miles, 1.9¢ per point on average. Anything paid in cash appears without a comparison value. The comparison value is not money paid out.
Key figures
$1,480 paid, $4,245 documented comparison value. The 65% difference came from 147,400 points and miles.
Paid
$1,480
flights, hotels and transfers
Comparison value
$4,245
documented cash value
Difference
65%
$2,765 documented
Points and miles
147,400
1.9¢ per point
At a glance
- Airlines
- TAP
- Booking classes
- Economy (4)
- Flight numbers
- Outbound flight Airport → Lisbon
- TP1863 LIS → PDL
- TP1864 PDL → LIS
- Return flight Lisbon → Airport
- Airports
- Lisbon (LIS), Ponta Delgada (PDL)
- Hotels
- The Azoriani Boutique, Ponta Delgada (10 nights)
- DoubleTree, Ponta Delgada (1 night)
- Ramada by Wyndham, Lisbon (1 night)
Day by day
21 August 2025
AirportLisbon LISEconomy
- Paid
- $114
- Value
- $175
- points
- 100
- per point
- 61.0¢
Lisbon LISPonta Delgada PDLEconomy
- Paid
- $114
- Value
- $200
- points
- 100
- per point
- 86.0¢
The Azoriani Boutique
- Paid
- $165
- Value
- $569
- points
- 24,000
- per point
- 1.7¢
23 August 2025
DoubleTree
- Paid
- $200
- Value
- $332
- points
- 12,000
- per point
- 1.1¢
24 August 2025
The Azoriani Boutique
- Paid
- $659
- Value
- $2,277
- points
- 96,000
- per point
- 1.7¢
1 September 2025
Ponta Delgada PDLLisbon LISEconomy
- Paid
- $114
- Value
- $307
- points
- 100
- per point
- 193.0¢
Ramada by Wyndham
- Paid
- $0
- Value
- $140
- points
- 15,000
- per point
- 0.9¢
2 September 2025
Lisbon LISAirportEconomy
- Paid
- $114
- Value
- $245
- points
- 100
- per point
- 131.0¢
The whole trip
| Category | Paid | Comparison value | Difference | Points and miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flights (4) | $456 | $927 | $471 51% | 400 |
| Hotels (4 stays, 12 nights) | $1,024 | $3,318 | $2,294 69% | 147,000 |
| Total (8 bookings) | $1,480 | $4,245 | $2,765 65% | 147,400 |
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.
- Fifth night free: Fifth night free is an elite benefit under which an award stay of five or more consecutive nights is charged for four nights of points.
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