If you have a specific destination in mind as to where you want to travel, you may gear you credit card bonuses and spending to earn miles/points for that destination. Unfortunately, when the times comes to book, you sometimes may fall short of your goal.
This happens to me and when it does I either supplement an extra flight or night or 2 using cash. But many times, I put that destination on the back burner and just pick somehere else to travel, a destination where it is easier to use what balance of miles/point I do have. In fact, I may be changing our plan this winter as I am trying to accumulate Starwood points but may come up short.
There are so many places that my family and I want to go that it is easy for me to just ditch our plan and head somewhere else. We will get to the original destination eventually. I just need to come up with a different (better) miles/points earning strategy….one of my favorite things to do!