Thrifty Traveler Premium and Premium+
We're big fans of Thrifty Traveler's award alert services. The Thrifty Traveler Premium service, which costs $99.99 per year, 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 a cost of $149.99 a year.
These services offer fantastic value and very soon the price will be going up. As of Saturday, March 14, the price for Thrifty Traveler Premium will go up to $129.99 and the price for Premium+ will go up to $189.99. But you can still lock it in at the current price – FOR LIFE!
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What are Award Flight Alert Services?
As the name suggests, award flight alert services send notifications when great award availability, either in quality, quantity or both, is located. While not for everyone, if you have flexibility in location, dates, and duration of upcoming travel, these alerts really help you. Destinations that you many never have considered, routes, airlines or class of service that you didn't know existed or thought possible are suddenly available and bookable. Overall, for the right person, these services are invaluable. Alert emails may include award flights, mistake fares and amazing cash prices on flights.
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. In the last month alone they sent subscribers almost 100 flight deals including:
- Dirt-cheap domestic fares including roundtrip flights to Savannah (SAV) from $159 roundtrip or Los Angeles (LAX) for under $100 total as well as plenty of deeply discounted long-haul international fares, like a recent deal to Sweden and Finland from $358 roundtrip.
- Nearly 20 business class award deals to Europe, Asia, and beyond with widespread availability for two or more passengers later this year or early next
- Incredibly rare award deals like Emirates business class to Europe bookable for as low as just 85,000 miles roundtrip, Japan Airlines First Class to Tokyo for 135,000 points, and Qantas’ long-haul from New York City (JFK) to Auckland (AKL) for just 80,000 American AAdvantage miles
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.
How Thrifty Traveler Premium+ Goes A Bit Further Than Traditional Award Flight Alert Services
With Thrifty Traveler Premium+ you also get hotel award alerts to the most popular aspirational properties in the world too. Since the launch of the hotel alerts, the focus is 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 for 110,000 Hilton Honors points
- 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 for 45,000 Hyatt points per night
- Ultra-rare availability to book the all-inclusive, Caribbean private island retreat Calala Island for 250,000 Hilton points per night
Thrifty also features hotel deal recommendations in (almost) all 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.
Lock In Your Price For Life
The $99 price for Thifty Traveler Premium and the $149.99 price for the Thrifty Traveler Premium+ will be increasing to $129.99 and $189.99, respectively. The good news? You can lock in the lower prices if you sign up before March 14 – and you get that price for life (as long as you keep your subscription active).
This isn't just for new members either. Existing Thrifty Traveler Premium flight deal members can add Hotel Alerts to their subscription for just $49.99 a year before the price increases and lock their price in for life too.
Even better – if you sign up as a new subscriber with our link below you'll get an extra $20 savings on your first year!
Our Link If You Want To Sign Up or Upgrade Your Current Account To Premium+
Thrifty Traveler Premium+ – ToP Thoughts
If you were considering signing up for Thrifty Traveler Premium or the Thrifty Traveler Premium+ bundle, or were just considering adding the hotel award alerts to your existing award flight subscription, then now may be the time. With the increase of $30 or more per year coming down the pike, you may want to lock the price in now. It is great to know that you would then be inflation proof, since the price is guaranteed for life. If you don't find the hotel alerts as useful as the flight alerts you should be able to remove it down the road too. Might as well lock it in now, and give it a try, or risk paying double the price for life if you grab it later.
Thanks in advance if you support ToP by using our link to sign up for a Thrifty Traveler Premium or Premium+ subscription, or to add the hotel alerts to your current subscription.
Let us know if you plan on signing up over in the ToP Facebook Group. And if you're an existing subscriber, we'd love to hear how the alerts have worked for you!
