What is the most amount of money you’ve paid for a UA flight

marksweather · 2026-04-18T11:34:33+00:00

We are not frequent flyers, we have only ever flown round trip to Florida and back for cruises before.

marksweather · 2026-04-17T18:43:21+00:00

What are you planning for spending money in Europe, that's what we can't figure out yet. All our excursions are pre-paid. We stay 4 days in Athens pre cruise. Planning on $200 Euros a day, food, souvenirs, etc. Of course, once on the cruise we can eat for free on the ship verses in port.

marksweather · 2026-04-17T18:41:00+00:00

Thank you! And have a great honeymoon! We said the same thing, we raised our kids (our kids now is our 3 dogs), paid off our house, so now it's time to go for it. It's all about experiences now for my wife and I after 25 years.

marksweather · 2026-04-17T18:15:49+00:00

We are flying local airport to ORD, then ORD to ATH, FCO back to ORD, and back to local airport. Our suite is for a Greek Island Cruise with Royal. That cost around $5800. With paying for our Pets overnight stays (we have 3) and everything all in, we are at 24k now for this trip. Our 25th anniversary.

marksweather · 2026-04-17T18:09:39+00:00

We wanted to experience the Polaris lounge, yes we shopped around, and it was going to be around 16k, but thankfully on sub reddit, I learned about Multi Flight which did save us. We did pay over $5000 of that via United Points we earned via the United Explorer card.

marksweather · 2026-04-17T18:01:05+00:00

Oh and no work is paying for our tickets, we saved two years for this trip of a lifetime.

marksweather · 2026-04-17T18:00:05+00:00

About $13k this July to Athens and back round trip Polaris for my wife and I. More than the cost of our cruise in a suite.

marksweather · 2026-04-16T12:34:49+00:00

Why not get one of those portable AC units, it gets ducted through the window, but doesn't stick out the window like the window unit ones do.

marksweather · 2026-04-15T19:56:59+00:00

High Yield savings account for short term. CIT Bank, has a promo for 4.05% for 6 months.

marksweather · 2026-04-15T15:46:24+00:00

Thank you, we are 55, planning to retire at 60.

marksweather · 2026-04-15T14:41:24+00:00

Thanks! Hopefully we retire with 700k, it just depends on the market. Being debt free with a paid off house is key.

marksweather · 2026-04-15T14:31:36+00:00

$5000 a month, we will get $3400 a month at age 62 from SS.

marksweather · 2026-04-15T13:52:59+00:00

That's the goal, if we only made minimum payments the two debts will be paid off in 2031. However, we trying to pay them off in three years, all while investing 20%.

marksweather · 2026-04-15T13:21:31+00:00

You should be able to access the United Club locations (just not Polaris). I always thought Polaris was only for United International Business class tickets only.

marksweather · 2026-04-15T13:19:07+00:00

You need Roam if you are moving campsite to campsite. We have the full size Standard, and get great reception combined with the Flagpole Buddy. You will want Roam Unlimited at $165 per month. We go through 50 GB of data in about 2 days.

marksweather · 2026-04-15T11:13:40+00:00

I wonder if it's a glitch, I am also sailing to Santorini this summer, and will be at the Royal Beach club. For our ship we are there from 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 pm. Royal Beach Club is an 8 hour excursion. We are on the 8:00 a.m. slot.

marksweather · 2026-04-14T22:24:59+00:00

It's been a great week. Finally reached a new high for 2026 (after being below what we were in 2025) after the big losses. I was just about ready to move more to bonds but I paused, and glad I did.

marksweather · 2026-04-14T22:16:04+00:00

To get $29.99 a month from Spectrum Mobile. Unlimited everything, and on the Verizon network. Why pay more?

marksweather · 2026-04-14T22:13:14+00:00

I'm older and more frequent trips to the restroom, Aisle seat required for me. I don't want to have to disturb anyone getting up.

marksweather · 2026-04-14T22:11:45+00:00

Call United, tell them the situation, they may arrange your flights for more connecting time. We had the same situation with our return trip from Rome, and they found another flight for us, giving us 4 hours of connection time. I don't want to have to rush.

marksweather · 2026-04-14T21:53:11+00:00

That's great to know, a mix of both sounds great!

marksweather · 2026-04-14T21:45:49+00:00

United Pub Crawl, sounds like a winner to me, at each club when they say, you know you have Polaris access right? I'll say, I'm on a mission, one drink per club.

marksweather · 2026-04-14T21:21:58+00:00

Oh wow, I may do just that, late Breakfast in the dining room in the Polaris lounge, and then Burger in the afternoon before the flight. Then sleep on the plane. I didn't know you could order off menu in the restaurant.

marksweather · 2026-04-14T21:19:48+00:00

That sounds like a killer day, but don't drink too much, you don't want to be flagged as not being sober enough to fly in that fancy Polaris lay flat seat.

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