Mexican escape

Want to visit beautiful, sunny Los Cabos, Mexico for as little as 5000 Spirit miles? Today's your lucky day! I've found another great value in the Spirit award chart, that reaps as much as 2.7 cents per mile (CPM) in value!

Flying from San Diego (SAN) to San Jose Cabo - Los Cabos, Mexico (SJC), we can find plenty of off-peak (read: cardholder) availability on the Spirit award calendar.

And wide open availability for the return as well:

Now, you might have noticed, those fees add up to $101.10. That's not free travel! That's true. Truly free travel is hard to come by, often more expensive than an award. However, this is a highly discounted rate. Let's take a look at what Kayak shows across all carriers for these dates.

Sorted by price from low to high (lowest price is at the top)

We can clearly see that our beloved Spirit is the cheapest carrier available at $240 for these dates. Now, for a round-trip, we'll need to use 5,000 miles and $101.10. We can weight that against the $240 price tag for buying the ticket outright.

5000mi + $101.10 = $240
5000mi = $138.90
1mi = $.02778

That means one Spirit mile is worth 2.7 cents when redeemed for this route! That's a fantastic value! In fact, that's far better than a cash back card because we're earning TWO of those miles for every dollar spent. In terms of the value, the Barclaycard Arrival earns a return of 2.2% (2% with 10% back when redeemed for travel), while we're getting 5.5% returns on every dollar we spend!!!

That's just another reason to spirit yourself away to Mexico this spring on Spirit!

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