Suites savers now available

[blessed11]

Were you able to book the tickets in one booking for the suites? When I checked yesterday it was only showing availability for 1 ticket in A380 suites on all routes...

 

[cove]

Go on as a one person booking and if it shows Saver and Standard as being available you book the Saver both ways first.
Then you either do a Saver on another flight that day or go Standard on the same flight if your two must fly together.
Feels convoluted but I have done this 4 times now and no one has grabbed the Standard seat in between me wrapping up the Saver. Now we are only doing Suites out of Singapore as there is only business class out of Perth so the saver for two is only 110,000 points return for that part of the journey.
It takes a few minutes extra to do the booking but the results are fantastic if you want Suites.

 

[blessed11]

Thanks for that detail. Slightly convoluted, though undoubtedly worth the extra effort. Planning a Europe trip soon so will have a look at doing this is the morning to grab us both suites, looking forward!

Thanks again !

 

[blessed11]

Just had a quick look. SYD - ZRH return. 225k points (with 15% online discount) for Suite on Saver and 442k (with 15% online discount) on Standard. Do you see value in paying almost double? I understand in your scenario there is a 14 year old involved, so of course you wouldn't want the child to travel on their own. However, in general would you see this as a worthwhile option?

225k + 442k = 667k points which equates to basically 333k points per person for a Suite SYD - ZHR return

 

[cove]

With my niece she will be able to travel alone by 4 hours or longer probably in a year as she becomes more "worldly" with travelling. You can see it is costing a bit more but I really have to put them on the same plane at this age.
For your very first Suites flight you may want to do that together as it is so good you can share the excitement one way and once.
Then you might want to go 3A and 3K in the hope that you get to use the centre seats for dining and movies and the window seats for sleeping with the bed made up for the whole flight. The flight attendants will help you with this so in my case I set up my Resmed sleep machine,water and eye shades in that Suite.
If Suites catch on this will probably just become a memory. Have been doing this on the A345 to LAX in their all business class by booking seats closer to the rear of that plane that no one books.
I looked up the web site (retail) price of the Perth -Singapore-London return run for two is a bit over $26,000 so I think using points for this is ok.

 

[blessed11]

Thanks for the response cove.
Never thought about attempting to get a spare Suite in the middle for 'recreation' purposes only... very creative thinking!
You're right regarding costing. SYD - ZRh return is also approx. $26k in Suite for 2. Even at 333k points per person, it's a bargain.
Thank you again for your input!

 

[MH_fan]

Are the saver suite awards available through other star alliance programmes or just through KF?

 

[Alanslegal]

In the rare occasions I get to fly F, I like to book a flight that departs early afternoon ~2pm-4pm so that I can wake up as normal, enjoy the F lounge before hand, experience the onboard service, and then have the some rest and relaxation post meal service in the early evening. So this leads to my question, which flight, ex-SIN preferably, departs around 2-4pm and goes somewhere far away enough so that I can spend lots of time on board?

 

[anat0l]

Are the saver suite awards available through other star alliance programmes or just through KF?

The common word on the street is that *A generally still cannot see F or R on SQ.

Although not necessarily as good value, I'm unsure about Velocity and their visibility of Suites / First.

 

[deluxeflyer]

In the rare occasions I get to fly F, I like to book a flight that departs early afternoon ~2pm-4pm so that I can wake up as normal, enjoy the F lounge before hand, experience the onboard service, and then have the some rest and relaxation post meal service in the early evening. So this leads to my question, which flight, ex-SIN preferably, departs around 2-4pm and goes somewhere far away enough so that I can spend lots of time on board?

Most of the long haul flights leave SIN either early-ish in the day like 9am or late in the evening / very early morning.
If far away enough is >10 hours, then it's either Europe or USA.
Whittling it down further, as we are on the A380 thread, all Europe bound A380 departures are late evening.
A380 departures to USA vary: SIN-NRT-LAX departs at 9am, SIN-FRA-JFK departs at midnight, SIN-HKG-SFO deps at 5.45pm.
So I'd say the nearest fit to your criteria is SQ2 SIN-HKG-SFO dep SIN 5.45pm, arr HKG 9.45pm, dep HKG 11.40pm, arr SFO 7.45pm.

That gives you heaps of time to have lunch and pre dinner in the Private Room if you wish, and still have a full dinner in Suites.

SQ221 SIN-SYD is pretty good for the full dinner experience, as it leaves at 8.30pm.
When I did SIN-NRT-LAX, although it left at 9am, on board it seemed to be, no it was a non-stop eat & Krug fest all the way to LAX.

Hope this helps.

EDIT: Oops, I forgot SQ 318 (A380) SIN-LHR that deps at 12.55pm arr LHR 7.05pm.
This might be the pick of the bunch....

 

[MH_fan]

Thanks for that.

 

[Alanslegal]

great response deluxeflyerSQ2 looks like a winner. Might even break up the trip and visit HKG for a bit

 

[deluxeflyer]

great response deluxeflyerSQ2 looks like a winner. Might even break up the trip and visit HKG for a bit

Thank you, Alanslegal.

Inspired by your query,
I have just booked SYD-SIN-SFO return in Suites.
With a total Suites flying time of 52 hours (gasp),
I want to make sure that I never hanker for it again.
Well at least for a year anyway.

 

[hummel]

Thank you, Alanslegal.

Inspired by your query,
I have just booked SYD-SIN-SFO return in Suites.
With a total Suites flying time of 52 hours (gasp),
I want to make sure that I never hanker for it again.
Well at least for a year anyway.

Love it! When the times comes, a trip report would be great!

 

[Cruiser Elite]

OK had my first two experiences in Suites MEL-SIN Dec 11 and SIN-MEL Dec 16 - WOW.

Everything you can imagine is WOW - but my god you now need binoculars to see the TV screen - it's a fair way from where you sit.

Had 3C outbound and 2C inbound - YES 2 middle Suites will provide double bed when both beds made up as I had on return but divider up middle still requires you sleep one side or other not sprawled across both.

Mini wardrobe great - hang your tweeds and settle in with the dodgy jamas.

Did I mention the WOW factor?

 

[Pollywaffle]

Sounds good.

How did you feel being cocooned away from others?

OK had my first two experiences in Suites MEL-SIN Dec 11 and SIN-MEL Dec 16 - WOW.

Everything you can imagine is WOW - but my god you now need binoculars to see the TV screen - it's a fair way from where you sit.

Had 3C outbound and 2C inbound - YES 2 middle Suites will provide double bed when both beds made up as I had on return but divider up middle still requires you sleep one side or other not sprawled across both.

Mini wardrobe great - hang your tweeds and settle in with the dodgy jamas.

Did I mention the WOW factor?

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Sounds good.

How did you feel being cocooned away from others?

Well it's certainly different - I have now flown 2 sectors in suites - 6 more booked for Mar and May next year - TBH after trying it I would not choose it over normal F or indeed J on 380 77W IF those flts provided better / more suitable connections.

I hope that doesn't sound ridiculous - depends a lot on your pts supply I guess Suites or J. I know Cruiserette would just think it way too over top - she still prefers old space beds to bigger new J on 380 / 77W - go figure.

 

[hummel]

Well it's certainly different - I have now flown 2 sectors in suites - 6 more booked for Mar and May next year - TBH after trying it I would not choose it over normal F or indeed J on 380 77W IF those flts provided better / more suitable connections.

I hope that doesn't sound ridiculous - depends a lot on your pts supply I guess Suites or J. I know Cruiserette would just think it way too over top - she still prefers old space beds to bigger new J on 380 / 77W - go figure.

Interesting thoughts, appreciate it. I've got approx 80k KF begging to be used up and could use them for MEL-SIN-HKG suites but hard to justify when it's really 'because I can'

Have never flown SQ J but the boss/old man does and reckon it compares to SQ F that he has flown before.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Yes spot on - need to justify it.

I have MEL-SIN-HKG booked for Mar and May next year - on Mar 27 I need to be in Beijing - on May 5 I need to be in Shanghai - I own the company and it's my $ so a no brainer to justify.

For business SQ J more than adequate if you can get 380 or 77W - new regional seats are really no good for trying to sleep on - but I digress - this is indeed a Suites thread and I apologise for taking it OT.

 

[Alanslegal]

Interesting thoughts, appreciate it. I've got approx 80k KF begging to be used up and could use them for MEL-SIN-HKG suites but hard to justify when it's really 'because I can'

Its never hard to justify it in front of an audience who are a bunch of frequent flyers and will support your decision to fly Suites just "because you can"