Just finished my first booking with Brian @ Award Magic. 10 years ago looking for reward travel was fun and relatively easy, today it is horrible. Looked at some on line sites, tried a couple, didn't work well with me. Found Brian. This is what he did for me in points, dollars and cents: Roundrtip business class multiple cities to Europe and Africa.
When I tried to book the route personally on AMEX using their points, 1.4 million points.
When I tried on American, 1.3 million points.
Cash, Business Class for 2 people, $12-16,000.00.
Cash, Economy Class, American or United, $3,000.00+
Here is what Brian got me. Note, I wanted to give my partner a really nice trip because as a small business owner I neglected the heck out over her trying to manage things through Covid, I did not take the lease expensive option Brian offered, We are flying business class Singapore vs. Air Canada, etc. We elected to pay extra cash to select BA business class seats to ensure we were sitting together, We elected to purchase an extra connecting flight for cash, etc. approximately 230,000 American Express points, transferred to Singapore Air and Cathay Pacific.
Brian handled everything and walked me through anything I had to do. Total cash out, was a little over $2,000, with other choices it could have only been $800. Brian's fee was $350.00 for his high end service.
Web sites offer $200.00 bookings, and Brian also has cheaper levels of service, but I recommend engaging him fully. His attitude, experience, energy and love for rewards travel made this a great experience.
The value I got from him was extraordinary. I saved a million points over booking it myself. He knew the business class products and could give me advice. He was able to come up with routes. Even if I would have bought economy tickets, the cash I spent was less than that.
Will absolutely use him again.