Much more quietly, Amex also added a 50 % rebate for
Pay with Points redemptions to the Business Platinum card.
Pay With Points redemptions for flights are somewhat better, finally hitting 1 cents per point in value.
An additional benefit is the enhancement of
the Pay with Points redemption option.
Not exact matches
While this can be a great way to travel without having to
pay with cash, the
redemption rate is pretty lackluster at 0.7 cents per
point.
If
paying with points will result in a higher $ /
point ratio, than other ThankYou
point redemption options offer, you are making the optimal financial decision by transferring the
points over.
Other
redemption options include gift cards, merchandise,
pay with points at checkout and statement credit.
Points can be used to pay for purchases at certain retailers like Amazon and McDonald's, but the value of yours points diminishes greatly with these types of redemp
Points can be used to
pay for purchases at certain retailers like Amazon and McDonald's, but the value of yours
points diminishes greatly with these types of redemp
points diminishes greatly
with these types of
redemptions.
Other Membership Rewards
redemptions can be made as well, like
paying for your travel
with earned
points, and several other
redemption options that Amex MR offers.
These transfers can help you unlock much more value than the 1 cents per
point possible using
Pay With Points for flights, which in turn is a better option than any other non-transfer
redemption.
Personally, I'd rather simply
pay the $ 115 cash fare on AtlasJet or use
points from an Arrival card in order to cover the cash cost, but that's only because this many
points are a relatively poor
redemption value when compared to the obscene value Donna can attain
with the rest of her itinerary.
Points can be used to pay for purchases at certain retailers like Amazon and McDonald's, but the value of yours points diminishes greatly with these types of redemp
Points can be used to
pay for purchases at certain retailers like Amazon and McDonald's, but the value of yours
points diminishes greatly with these types of redemp
points diminishes greatly
with these types of
redemptions.
While this can be a great way to travel without having to
pay with cash, the
redemption rate is pretty lackluster at 0.7 cents per
point.
Also, in a few cases, we've used a fixed -
redemption program like Barclaycard Arrival, gift cards offset by statement credits on American Express Platinum or the
Pay -
With -
Points options available through Ultimate Rewards and Membership Rewards.
Redemptions are easy:
pay for travel expenses
with Arrival, then call or go to their website and simply cancel out eligible travel expenses using the
points you save up.
We could use more — even
with free one - way tricks, etc. we will still be
paying some domestic airfares, as we need to save our
points for more valuable hotel / international air
redemptions.
Our mainstay for high value hotel
redemptions — Hyatt — doesn't have a property on island, so this is a time when
pay -
with -
points points like ThankYou offer a better value than the Marriott or IHG options.
Other Membership Rewards
redemptions can be made as well, like
paying for your travel
with earned
points, and several other
redemption options that Amex MR offers.
When you book through the American Express travel website and choose the
Pay with Points option, you'll get a straight 1 - cent - per - dollar
redemption rate.
Sometimes award
redemptions offer you really lousy value and it's better to just
pay with a credit card and earn
points / miles on the purchase and on the flight / stay.
Loyalty systems almost never roll back devaluations so, years after people have had the enjoyment of this
points bonanza and probably forgotten most of what they did
with them, a lot of us will still be
paying the price in inflated
redemption rates.
Pay with Points requires a minimum redemption of 5,000 p
Points requires a minimum
redemption of 5,000
pointspoints.
You can temporarily «store» the
points in a no - fee card, but eventually you'll need to
pay $ 95 at least once (or keep churning cards to repeatedly get that first year
with no annual fee) if you want more for those
points than just a 1 cent per
point cash
redemption.
Your account automatically shows the eligible travel - related charges from the past 90 days that can be
paid for
with points (the minimum
points redemption is 2,500 miles).
The other way to
pay for travel
with RBC Avion
points is by using the Air Travel
Redemption Schedule
Stays
paid for using
Points + Cash and other
point redemption rates are not eligible for this Promotion and the Promotion can not be combined
with any other special rates, discounts, coupons, sales promotion, or other offers.
For anyone unsure of how cash &
points redemptions work, it's really quite simple: Instead of
paying for one or more award nights purely
with points, guests can choose to
pay for the night (s)
with a combination of cash and
points.
You'll notice above that you can also
pay with Chase
points, but it's a terrible
redemption.
This compares favourably
with the 0.7 c per
point that is on offer
with the
points +
pay reward night
redemptions.
Redemption Stay Credit Starting Nov. 1, 2015 Marriott Rewards and The Ritz - Carlton Rewards members will earn Elite night credit on redemption nights paid for wi
Redemption Stay Credit Starting Nov. 1, 2015 Marriott Rewards and The Ritz - Carlton Rewards members will earn Elite night credit on
redemption nights paid for wi
redemption nights
paid for
with points.
In my case, after spending a lot more nights
with Accor Hotels and achieving Platinum in Accor's LeClub, my offer for 2017 is great: A single night stay in January
paid with my IHG Rewards Club MaterCard and a
point redemption will net me 31,000
points, a value of $ 186!
Pay with Scotia Rewards
points (minimum 20 % of the total cost of your
redemption) and cover the remaining balance
with your Program Card1.
Some people would maybe just want to
pay surcharges since they could probably get more than 1.07 cents per
point worth of value from their miles
with a future
redemption, while others may want to use the additional 27,000 miles because it would save them from having to come out of pocket
with an additional $ 288.
Likewise, a $ 250 flight against which I might have redeemed 20,000 Ultimate Rewards
points can now be
paid for
with Delta funny money, and I can start looking around for a high - value Hyatt
redemption where I can stretch those same Ultimate Rewards
points.
To redeem your ThankYou
points for travel, you would visit the Citi ThankYou Travel
Redemption Center, book the travel you desire and
pay with your ThankYou
points.
The simplest way to do this is to not alter my planned earning and
redemption at all: if all my trips are already optimized between revenue fares (
paid for
with cheap Ultimate Rewards
points and Flexpoints) and award trips, then I can convert my Delta transportation voucher directly into airfare for new trips.
In a way it's just like
paying for travel
with cash,
with each
redemption offering a fixed value per
point.
Hilton also gives you an option to
pay with Points & Money on select stays, which can help you stretch your points further while still getting an excellent redemption
Points & Money on select stays, which can help you stretch your
points further while still getting an excellent redemption
points further while still getting an excellent
redemption value.
I recently had my worst
points redemption ever, and it took me almost a month to notice that a popular retailer was using
points to
pay for my orders
with my requesting for that to happen.