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30+
places reviewed — flights, hotels & lounges
~$100,000
est. points savings
~$6,600
avg savings per trip
~2.4M
points optimized across trips

The Deep Value Ledger

Anyone can show you the itinerary. We’ll show you the bill.

Ten days in Japan, start to finish. Every point, every dollar, and what the same trip would have cost booking it outright.

01 / The experience

10 days

The trip we'd have paid full price for.

Peak ski season in Niseko with a Park Hyatt base, then Tokyo, flying home in JAL's new A350-1000 business class by way of New York.

Niseko · Tokyo

02 / Points used

191,000

Where the points went.

146,000 covered four flights, 89,000 of that for the JAL business seat. The other 45,000 covered peak-season nights at Park Hyatt Niseko, capped in points while cash rates spiked.

Points per person

03 / Cash paid

~$550

What we actually paid.

Award taxes and fees, a $100 positioning flight home to San Francisco, and the cash balance across stays. That is the whole out-of-pocket.

Cash paid per person

04 / Comparable retail price

~$8,100

What it would have cost to just book it.

Same dates, same cabins, same rooms: about $5,400 in flights and $2,700 in hotel nights. The JAL seat alone retails above $4,000. Context, not a savings claim.

Retail price per person

The full trip report

Japan for $550: JAL Business & Park Hyatt Niseko

Read how all of it was put together

Trip planning · $100–$500

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What you pay depends on how long the trip is, how many of you there are, and how many cities. We send you exactly what to book, and your points never leave your own accounts.

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Where, when, who is coming, the points and miles you have, and how you like to travel.

02 / Either way

Free

Every brief gets a reply

If it is not a trip we can improve, we say so and send our recommendations anyway.

03 / If we take it

$100–$500

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  • Every flight and hotel, with the exact dates to book them
  • A day-by-day plan built around how you travel
  • Where to eat, from people we actually know
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