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Of course, when SPG loyalty members redeem Starwood points for award nights at SPG hotels, the value is terrific, especially with the 5th night free.

Not exact matches

The Delta SkyMiles ® program also partners with the American Express Membership Rewards program and the Starwood Preferred Guest program, which gives you the ability to transfer your points from those programs directly into your SkyMiles ® account and earn even more SkyMiles ® for your next award flight.

While there are tons of ways to use SPG points for flights, Starwood Preferred Guest is still a hotel rewards program that provides plenty of hotel award stay options.

-- Starwood Points, or Starpoints that can be earned through the Starwood Hotel's Preferred Guest Program are a very valuable and flexible award currency for travelers.

Use cards like the Starwood Preferred Guest ® Credit Card from American Express or Citi ThankYou Premier Card to earn more points for your award.

A Starwood Preferred Guest elite paying for stays with the American Express co-branded credit card earns 5 Starpoints per dollar spent at Starwood properties, and would have to spend $ 2,000 on paid stays before they earned enough points for a single award night at a mid-tier property.

Starpoints convert to airline miles or you can use them for free stays or cash - and - points awards at some of Starwood's great properties worldwide.

Starwood points can also be useful for award nights in hotels.

Despite its relatively small 25,000 - point sign - up bonus, the Starwood Preferred Guest American Express card is probably your best bet for earning an award flight to Australia or New Zealand.

The Top Starwood hotels cost 30,000 Starpoints per night so, not only can you not purchase enough points for an award night at a top Starwood hotel, even if you were topping off an account you'd still be effectively paying almost $ 790 / night!

While there are tons of ways to use SPG points for flights, Starwood Preferred Guest is still a hotel rewards program that provides plenty of hotel award stay options.

The flexibility of a stopover (staying at a destination more than 24 hours after landing en route to another destination) on a one - way international award (2 total for round - trip flights), 2 open - jaws (departing from a different city than the one you landed in), and Starwood Preferred Guest and Alaska credit cards to generate points and miles would be the first option I would consider.

The Delta SkyMiles ® program also partners with the American Express Membership Rewards program and the Starwood Preferred Guest program, which gives you the ability to transfer your points from those programs directly into your SkyMiles ® account and earn even more SkyMiles ® for your next award flight.

When you transfer Starwood points to Singapore Airlines, you can book certain award flights on United Airlines for fewer miles!

Therefore, one of the best uses of Starwood points is topping off a frequent flyer account in order to get enough points for an award trip.

The bonus points awarded for Starwood stays are significantly higher than the bonus for many other cobranded cards, with five Starpoints awarded per dollar spent at Starwood hotels.

Starwood points can also be useful for award nights in hotels, such as the Sheraton Metechi Palace Hotel in Tbilisi.

Starwood points can also be very valuable for award nights in hotels.

Points earned through the Starwood Hotel's SPG loyalty program are a very valuable and flexible award currency for travelers.

And when you redeem Starwood points for free night awards, either through Starwood or Marriott, you receive your fifth consecutive night for free.

Living the dream on card rewards Those who don't know us very well may think we are living the high life, but the truth is that our $ 250 hotel room near the line of totality during the eclipse was booked for 3,000 Starwood Preferred Guest points; our flight to Wyoming was 100 percent free on a private plane thanks to a crazy JetSmarter promotion for those who could prove they had a million miles; our resort complete with water slides and a lazy river in San Antonio was booked using an annual credit card award night when the room normally costs $ 300 - plus per night; our amazing room at the Park Hyatt New York was booked using 30,000 Hyatt points per night when the selling price was almost $ 1,000 per night; and most of our other flights were booked via a collection of airline miles and credit card points that were primarily earned by leveraging our everyday spending for major rewards.

Starwood Preferred Guest provides only 333 Starpoints in return for 1,000 Membership Rewards points, and the award chart isn't exactly cheap.

Starwood even offers a 50 % Off Award, meaning you can book a room with 1,000 points at many locations and get 50 percent off the room rate for up to five nights.

I am a big fan of Starpoints and one of the best features of the Starwood program is that in addition to using SPG points for free hotel award stays, you can also convert Starpoints to airline miles.

Recent Starwood merger news and posts: - Roundup Of Combined Marriott And Starwood Award Charts With Sample Hotels, Extend Your Points Expiration, And More — Marriott Completes Starwood Buyout; Link Your Accounts To Transfer Points, Match Elite Status, And Take Advantage Of Each Program's Strengths — Transfer 18,667 Starpoints Into 25K United Miles Or 90K Starpoints Into 132K United Miles And 7 Nights In A Marriott Hotel — Redeem 90K Starpoints For 120K Southwest Points, Southwest Companion Pass Status, And 7 Nights In A Marriott Hotel — Starwood Adds 36th Airline Partner — Starwood's 35th Transfer Partner Increases The Value Of Your Starpoints; Fly Roundtrip JFK - Los Angeles For Less Than 10K Or JFK - Europe For Less Than 20K SPG!

Points in the Starwood hotel's Preferred Guest program are widely considered to be among the most valuable points currencies available in part because they can be transferred to miles in 31 different airline programs and in turn, used for award flights with all of these airlines» parPoints in the Starwood hotel's Preferred Guest program are widely considered to be among the most valuable points currencies available in part because they can be transferred to miles in 31 different airline programs and in turn, used for award flights with all of these airlines» parpoints currencies available in part because they can be transferred to miles in 31 different airline programs and in turn, used for award flights with all of these airlines» partners.

Free night awards at Starwood hotels begin at a mere 3,000 points for a weekend stay.

Although award nights at higher - end properties can cost as many as 35,000 points, Starwood has many luxury properties where you can redeem 10,000 points or less for an award night.

Since the first of the year Priority Club introduced a new 9 - tier reward chart, Starwood raised the price of cash and points awards, Marriott introduced a new more expensive award tier and a points price increase for 36 % of their properties.

We can therefore confidently say that on the average, Starwood points are worth between 2.0 to 2.2 cents per point for standard award redemption.

- The Starwood Consumer AMEX and the Starwood Business AMEX each award 25K signup points with no fee for the first year.

-- Lufthansa Miles & More is a transfer partner of Starwood Preferred Guest, so you could always use some of these points to top up your account for a specific award, and remember, when you transfer in increments of 20,000 points, you get a 5,000 - mile bonus — 25 % more miles.

Transferring points reserved for a Starwood Nights & Flights award to Marriott would get you the following:

The Sheraton Park Hotel is a Category 4 Starwood hotel that costs 10,000 points per night for a free award night.

The good news is, even if you don't fly Star Alliance carriers regularly, you have a lot of options for booking awards on its various member carriers thanks to their partnerships with transferable points programs like Amex Membership Rewards, Chase Ultimate Rewards, Citi ThankYou Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest.