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I recently won a trip to any US destination served by Lufthansa out of Düsseldorf. I could choose between New York, Chicago and Miami. I've just been to the New York and Chicago so I opted for Miami. Tickets were supposed to book into the booking class N which is a class usually used by employees (ID tickets) to travel for cheap. As a result the best dates were already taken and I had to play the waitlist game. I finally got seats for a long weekend before Christmas. I had to buy tickets do Düsseldorf on my own and Lufthansa could not combined paid tickets with the non-revenue stuff. As a friend is tagging along I jumped on a set of reduced tickets on Lufthansa. Combined with a 30 Euro rebate voucher and payment via Paypal I managed to mess up the Lufthansa system and overpaid by 20 Euro. I am still waiting on getting this resolved.

Unfortunately the downside of a free N-class ticket is that I would not be entitled to Senator benefits like seatblocking etc. I made another call to the regular Senator line and they got me the best seats on the plane and even blocked the neighbouring seat so my friend can move there the day before departure.

Now all we need are decent motels and hotels to stay. Priceline wasn't my friend so far.