I have written on the guide on the stopover hack. It is located here. As one would expect, many people like it – but yes, they were skeptical. Also, since we’re here in Singapore, there are plenty of short-haul flights that make it really easy to use this travel hack open secret!
Scenario – Pool Villa Addict
The scenario. Let’s assume that you are a pool villa addict like me who frequently fly back-and-forth between Bangkok and Bali.
Flights : DPS (Bali) > SIN > BKK (Bangkok) > SIN > DPS > SIN > BKK > …
Presenting Exhibit A below. I have a portion of the updated SAVER redemption chart. Let’s take some Business Class flights.
A normal person would book a return flight when travelling from Singapore to Bali :
- SIN > DPS (19,000 miles)
- DPS > SIN (19,000 miles)
A normal person would book a return flight when travelling from Singapore to Bangkok:
- SIN > BKK (19,000 miles)
- BKK> SIN (19,000 miles)
Me i.e. Abnormal Miles-Collecting Person
Well, I’m not a normal person. This means that I book one-way flights with stopovers in Singapore. In case you’re wondering, a simple way to think of a stopover is a connection between flights that is more than 24 hours. We can even leave the airport!
Just a quick note – an KrisFlyer ADVANTAGE (as opposed to SAVER) redemption requires twice as many miles, but have certain perks to it, one of which 1 x free stopover. SAVER flights come with no stopovers, but we can pay US$100 to insert one. Yeahhh!
An abnormal person like me would therefore book flights in this manner :
- DPS > SIN (21,500 miles) ; stopover (click for my previous flight)
- SIN > BKK (US$100)
And like this too :
- BKK > SIN (21,500 miles) ; stopover
- SIN > DPS (US$100)
OK. The not-so-good things first. As you might have realized by now, it would require a little bit of flexibility in terms of travel planning. Oh, and US$100. I’m not going to write the same thing again, but if this is new to you then you can check out my older post.
The good thing is obvious – we use much less miles and if you’re lucky, snag some peak-period flights! Guess who is spending the New Year and Labour Day overseas?
In my flight details below, you can see the breakdown of charges – the price is per pax. Taxes are still required to be paid. The S$138 fare is the equivalent of US$100.
Proof Of Miles
I write about stuff I’m doing. I share when it works. I keep a monthly update here. I hope you will give it a try too.
Here’s what I have after using 43,000 KrisFlyer miles to redeem the total of 4 flights for my wife and I. If you’re crunching the numbers in your head, let me help!
- 4 Business Class Flights = S$448.40 + 43,000 miles, or
- 1 Business Class Flight = S$112.10 + 10,750 miles (plus some time and effort) 🙂
Yes, I know, not that much of any substantial proof but the very fact that I bother to do this had to mean something, right? 😛
KrisFlyer :
Citi Miles :
(1 Citi Mile : 1 mile)
UOB UNI$ :
(1 UNI$ : 2 mile)
DBS Points :
(1 DBS Point : 2 mile)
OCBC$ :
(1 OCBC$ : 0.4 mile)
Business Flight Chain That Goes On And On ..
This is a series of blog posts that started from the city of Taipei.
- Taipei > Singapore
- Singapore > Bali
- Bali > Singapore
- Singapore > Bangkok (redeemed, not flown yet)
- Bangkok > Singapore (redeemed, not flown yet)
- Singapore > Bali (redeemed, not flown yet)
- Bali > To be determined (not redeemed)
Kevin started Turtle Investor when his net worth languished at negative $25,755. His desire to turn things around led him to build passive income from investments and side hustles that pay for all his daily expenses and overseas vacations. You can learn more about Kevin here.
if you were to book
DPS -> sin(stopover) – > BKK would this be a round trip or will a single trip work also? then single trip back from DPS and BKK respectively.
Hi Jay,
This will be considered a single trip.