BA - Companion Voucher redemption questions

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Hi all,

Thinking about using our companion voucher for some business class flights to India next Feb/March. We've got enough points for it all and there looks to be a fair amount of availability from London.

We ideally wanted to spend most of our time down in Goa, so spend a few days in Mumbai to see the sights and acclimatise, then get another flight down to Goa to chill in a hotel etc.

I was wondering, is there any benefit to booking the trip as a BA Holiday and using Avios with things like internal flights and hotels included? Can you use your companion voucher for things like this?

If theres no benefit/bonus to booking as a BA Holiday, can you still use a companion voucher if you want to book a multi-stop booking?

i.e. I was thinking of doing something like this:
Fly into Mumbai, spend 3 nights,
Fly Mumbai to Goa spend 10 nights,
Fly Goa back to London (via Mumbai)

I know I could book this altogether at BA as multi-stop and pay bash, but just curious if you can use your companion voucher for this type of multi-city booking, with the inbound and outbound flights arriving/leaving in different cities? (i'm ok with booking a separate internal flight if needed)

 

[R.O.S.S.I]

Yeh we were thinking of flying into and out of Mumbai and getting an internal flight down to Goa.

What are the open jaw rules? Could I use the companion voucher say to book the flight into Mumbai but have the return leg go from Goa (via Mumbai)? Or do they have to be direct flights? There's a lot of options on BA which have the flights from Mumbai to London but with an internal connection from Goa to Mumbai first for the way back.

 

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If you need any pointers, happy to help. Did Goa and Agra via Mumbai last November .

Ive been to India many years ago and visited the usual hotspots but i'm contemplating visiting again with my wife and what will be our 6 month old child.

Was thinking flying to Mumbai, spending a few days there, then hopping on a flight down to Goa and spending the rest of our time there.

The main issue i'm having is figuring out the best area to stay in Goa, particularly with a <6 month old - ideally dont want to be restricted to just the hotel and want to be near enough things to go out to beaches and explore restaurants and bars.