You won't be able to transfer points to airlines to book fancy first class seats, or book
a cheap reward stay at a hotel for business travel, but you can redeem your cash back at any time for any amount.
Not exact matches
Some people like to offer a single piece of candy for pee and something
cheap like a Matchbox car or Shopkins for poop, while some experts recommend
staying away from
rewards because verbal praise will often be enough to keep your kids motivated.
Traveling to Hawaii isn't
cheap, but credit card and loyalty
rewards points can make your hotel
stay cheap, or even free!
(You might find it's
cheaper to book an IHG hotel directly through Ultimate
Rewards than to transfer the points first to IHG
Rewards and book it as an award
stay.)
Look for reviews and ask the hotel about their rooms to see if
staying at a
cheaper rewards rate room might hold the same quality as a more expensive one.
The Points Guy / / Once you get into the travel
rewards hacking game, TPG is a great resource for not only great travel deals, but also teaching you how to mix and match
rewards points to get
cheap or nearly free flights and hotel
stays.
While that means I didn't have any out - of - pocket expenses for my hotel
stays (except 12,000 Ultimate
Rewards points I had to transfer to World of Hyatt), on the other hand if I were absolutely focused on cost I probably could have spent far less by simply booking far in advance and
staying at the absolutely
cheapest properties in each city.
If you are planning to
stay at Marriott or Starwood hotels later this year using
reward points, you should check the list NOW: Some hotels might get more expensive, so you should book them before March 7th, some will be
cheaper to book after March 7th!
Choice Privileges
Rewards points have some annoying limitations to them but at ~ 0.48 cents each they're pretty
cheap and, even if you can use them for hotel
stay, they may be good value for conversion to airline miles if a good conversion bonus comes up later in the year.
Joanna could earn an easy 3,500 IHG
rewards points from a one night
stay at a
cheap Holiday Inn Extra property (2,500 early
stay bonus +
stay once get 1,000) but that's hardly enough to warrant moving a
stay over to IHG or making a special effort to book a
stay at an IHG property.
Earlier today I went online to check prices at a Holiday Inn that I'm looking to book for an upcoming
stay and I noticed something useful — IHG
Rewards is offering me a 15 % discount on the cash portion of the «points & cash» rate that's available at all IHG properties and there is a way to use this to manufacture
cheap IHG
Rewards points.
This method of purchasing
cheap IHG points is scalable so, if you have more IHG
Rewards points in your account, you could book a
stay of 2 + nights (at 5,000 points + $ 70 per night) and then, upon canceling the reservation, you would receive the refund in the form of
cheap IHG
Rewards points.
Still, if you plan to use this method to buy IHG
Rewards points on the
cheap it doesn't really matter where the hotel is as you'll be canceling the
stay anyway.
If you don't have any upcoming uses for hotels, mattress run (book hotels purely for the sake of earning
rewards) four times for one night
stays at nearby
cheap IHG properties in the Candlewood Suites, Staybridge Suites, and Holiday Inn Express brands.
-LSB-...] Current Offer: Buy IHG Points for 0.575 cents Best Guess for Offer Tomorrow: Buy IHG Points for 1.15 cents Don't Miss This Deal If: You need to get your balance to 5,000 points to prepare for PointBreaks lists Skip This Deal If: You don't have a hotel
stay in mind that is
cheaper this way than just paying for the hotel with cash Further Reading: Buy IHG
Rewards Points for 0.575 Cents Each, $ 29 Hotel Rooms -LSB-...]