Steve Belkin

Evil Genius www.BookYourAward.com

When you have been hounded by every major airline Security/Fraud Department, you must be doing something right!  Steve Belkin has earned over 43 million (not a typo) miles and points leveraging the unpredictable (Thai rice farmers to fly as my surrogates), the perplexing (purchasing hotel rooms for 2 months in a wing that was closed) and the mundane (buying thousands of cheese, RIFD luggage tags, awful magazines and web storage space that offered huge bonuses).  Steve parlayed his passion into BookYourAward mileage award booking service that crushes it with over 4 Billion (not a typo, again) worth of international Business/First Class awards at the elusive low cost 'Saver' level.  The company principal has merited the 'CondeNast Traveler Magazine 'Top Travel Specialist' (only one out of 135 of over 10,000 judged)for the fifth straight year.  Steve also runs www.competitours.com, which Chicago tribune calls 'The Amazing Race For Regular People'- a team travel competition to Europe featuring mystery itinerary, surprise challenges and hot pursuit of a cash grand prize.