Thrifty Traveler Award Alert Service
We're big fans of the award alert service Thrifty Traveler Premium. It sends out flight alert emails and text messages for domestic and international economy, business and first class flights. These alerts include both cash fares, award flights and mistake/error fares. The Thrifty Traveler Premium+ service adds on hotel alerts for an additional cost. These services can complement your award booking searches and trip planning, and they offer fantastic value if you even make a single great flight or hotel redemption because of them. One of the great things about Thrifty Traveler is that once you sign up, your renewal price is also locked in for life, as long as you keep the service.
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How Thrifty Traveler's Award Alert Service Works
As the name suggests, the Thrifty Traveler award alert service sends notifications when excellent award availability—either in quality, quantity or both—appears. While not for everyone, if you have flexibility in location, dates and duration of upcoming travel, these alerts can really level up your award travel game. They open the door to destinations, routes, airlines or classes of service that you may never have considered. For the right person, these services are invaluable. Alert emails may include award flights, mistake fares and amazing cash prices on flights.
What Does It Cost?
The Thrifty Traveler award alert service has a free option that is very limited and sends alerts later, so space may be gone by time you receive it. The Thrifty Traveler Premium subscription is $129.99 per year, and Thrifty Traveler Premium +, which includes the hotel alerts is $189.99 per year. The two paid options also include text alerts, which is great if you are not monitoring your email. Some of the ToP team have literally pulled the car over to book alert deals. Your price is locked in for life once you sign up. So if prices change, you are locked in at your rate for as long as the subscription is active.
Thrifty Traveler Premium Flight Alerts
Thrifty Traveler Premium boasts that it sends out more flight deals than any other flight deal service on the market. You can tailor your flight alert experience based on your preferred home airport(s) with a choice from 200+ airports in the U.S. and Canada, or you can let Thrifty send you a broad range of deals such as:
- Flights to Europe in business class for 45K
- Business class fares to South America for 60K (and even as low as 85K roundtrip)
- Incredibly rare award deals like Delta One Suites to Asia for 80K each way, Alaska Airlines business class suites to Japan for as low as 60K Atmos points each way, and Qantas business class to Australia for 80K American Airlines miles each way!
How Thrifty Traveler Premium+ Goes A Bit Further
With Thrifty Traveler Premium+, you also get hotel award alerts for some of the most aspirational properties around the world. Since the launch of hotel alerts, the focus has been on top-rated resorts, new hotels and luxury properties bookable with hotel points from the big four chains: Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott and IHG. Here are some examples of hotel alerts:
- The outstanding Zemi Beach House in Anguilla
- A first chance to book the long-awaited Park Hyatt Mexico City next year on points
- Ultra-rare availability at Alila Ventana Big Sur next year
- Unicorn availability to book the all-inclusive Caribbean private-island retreat, Calala Island
Thrifty also features hotel deal recommendations in (almost) all of its premium flight deals. So a flight alert to London will also include a handful of great London hotel deals, as well, including discounted paid rates as well as points deals.
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Thrifty Traveler Award Alert Service: ToP Thoughts
While it's not for everyone, the Thrifty Traveler award alert service can be a great resource to have in your tool belt. If you are new, you can search and replicate the alerts to help learn availability and saver pricing. For those with flexible travel dates or who can't decide on your travel destination, this lets the deal pick your trip for you! There are so many options for ways to use these alerts. Thanks in advance for your support of ToP if you use our link to sign up for a Thrifty Traveler Premium or Premium+ subscription, or to add hotel alerts to your current subscription. Let us know if you plan on signing up over in the ToP Facebook group. If you're an existing subscriber, we'd love to hear how the alerts have worked for you!
