Agree 100 % with booking strategy.
Ex LAX - SYD all flights are points. Some cancellable but all changeable. The LAX-SYD flight is cancellable until November 16. Until then, we'll keep looking for a decent points deal. 480k each at the moment!!
Hotels stays are all points and are cancellable.
We have to use the points before we run out of time!!
Question.....last time in Sydney we stayed at the Four Seasons. OK but nothing special. This time we booked the Marriott Circular Quay. 3 nights, on points, so free. We have many Marriott points and are (almost) guaranteed any available upgrade. Google maps shows Marriott several blocks away from the harbor. Any comments?
Philip, if Seabourn promised you bus class to Vancouver - and presumably back from Sydney - then you should get it.
Our original thoughts were to go along with the changes. We then realized that on every one of the last 35 or so days we would probably be regretting it. Some years ago we spent 2 months in NZ, a couple of years later we spent 6 weeks traveling up Australia's east coast. This definitely impacted our decision.