If you've collected
enough points for an award flight — either through credit card spending, by flying the airline, or by shopping and dining with its partners — keep on reading for some of the best ways to use Hawaiian miles.
While most people reading this blog may not have a lot of Hawaiian Airlines miles the airline is an Amex Membership Rewards transfer partner so you could transfer over
enough points for an award (at a 1:1 ratio).
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!
So, if you wanted to buy
enough points for an award night at a top Hyatt property (Category 7) like the Park Hyatt Sydney....
The easiest way to look a this is to see how much it would cost to buy
enough points for an award night at, for example, one of the top Hyatt properties around the world.
so, if you wanted to buy
enough points for an award night at a Category 7 property... like the Park Hyatt New York....
The easiest way to look a this is to see how much it would cost to buy
enough points for an award night at a hotel you're likely to want to stay at.
If you're looking to buy points to buy an award outright you need to compare the cost to buy
enough points for an award night vs the cash cost of the same room on the same date.
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.
As you approach having
enough points for an award, the marginal value of a few more points goes up substantially — since those extra points are what make the award possible.
Not exact matches
By transferring some of her hotel
points to American Airlines miles she'll have
enough miles
for this
award.
Transferring all your 50,000 Ultimate Reward
points to your Continental OnePass account will give you 90,000 Continental miles (40,000 +50,000), but that is not
enough for 2 return
award tickets to Europe (2 x 60,000 = 120,000 miles).
As a transfer partner of Chase Ultimate Rewards, American Express Membership Rewards, Citi ThankYou
Points, and SPG Starpoints, it's easy to accumulate
enough Avios
for award bookings.
Category 1 properties are often available
for as few as 7,500
points, which means your bonus can be
enough points for at least 10
award nights at a Marriott Hotel.
The ability to pool
points into your Chase Ultimate Rewards account means you'll have
enough for the best
awards in the form of travel, gift cards, shopping, and more.
This is not a great use of Membership Rewards
points, so only do this if you're close to having
enough Hilton
points for an
award.
In addition to that you can utilize the Cash &
Points option for award reservations in case you don't have enough p
Points option
for award reservations in case you don't have
enough pointspoints.
For instance, the Kennedys can redeem 1 room for around 40,000 points, and still have enough left for a 5,000 PointBreaks awa
For instance, the Kennedys can redeem 1 room
for around 40,000 points, and still have enough left for a 5,000 PointBreaks awa
for around 40,000
points, and still have
enough left
for a 5,000 PointBreaks awa
for a 5,000 PointBreaks
award.
Soon
enough, you'll be redeeming
points for some amazing
award flights that will take you around the world!
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.
If you already have
points with JetBlue or Southwest, or have a stockpile of Ultimate Rewards
points on hand, using them toward an
award flight can be a nice use, but the cash cost is low
enough that it's not worth applying
for a new card specifically
for the purpose of paying
for flights.
So, combine your
points to put all 140,000 miles in one account and you'll have
enough for two Coach Saver
awards (30,000 miles per person each way).
Based on my research, I concluded that irregular pricing occurred when a hotel has a high
enough fixed value assigned to HHonors
points redeemed
for premium rooms and,
for whatever reason, the best available rate
for premium rooms is low
enough to drop the price in cash, after conversion to HHonors
points, below the HHonors
point cost
for a standard room
award.
Even if they can't earn
enough miles
for the whole roundtrip, Southwest
awards are booked each way, so they could very easily book one leg
for points and the other
for dollars.
Another benefit of searching
for flights using Avios is that there is an Avios + Cash option, where you can supplement your
award booking with cash if you don't have
enough points in your account.
While these aren't always the most favorable rates compared to other options
for your hotel
points, they can be really helpful
for using up «orphan» hotel
points if you don't have
enough for a hotel
award.
As a transfer partner of Chase Ultimate Rewards, American Express Membership Rewards, Citi ThankYou
Points, and SPG Starpoints, it's easy to accumulate
enough Avios
for award bookings.
That's easily
enough points to book Lufthansa first class or Singapore Airlines first class... and still have plenty leftover to redeem
for award stays at some great Hyatt properties.
The ability to pool
points into your Chase Ultimate Rewards account means you'll have
enough for the best
awards in the form of travel, gift cards, shopping, and more.
«The only slightly reasonable explanation
for why one would transfer AmEx
points into Elevate at these rates is if you've got almost
enough for a reasonably high - value
award already and you just need to top off the account.
If you don't have
enough points, you can purchase up to 5,000
points —
enough for at least 1 GoFast
award night — at a price of $ 11
for 1,000
points, close to the value of the
points.
This may not be such a great deal
for those of you on the East Coast, where Amtrak
awards require many more
points, but those fortunate
enough to be on «special» routes can take a cheap weekend vacation.
I'll have about 200K HHonors
points after meeting minimum spend on this card, and that's
enough for a pretty decent
award stay if I plan it carefully.
Category 1 properties are often available
for as few as 7,500
points, which means your bonus can be
enough points for at least 10
award nights at a Marriott Hotel.
From a positive
point of view those with foreign - based MileagePlus accounts (or at least those with UK MileagePlus accounts) can now buy
enough miles
for two roundtrip Business Class
awards between Europe and the US on United operated flights (115,000 miles each).
By transferring some of her hotel
points to American Airlines miles she'll have
enough miles
for this
award.
1) They're spreading their miles /
points out across too may loyalty programs so they find it hard to build up a balance large
enough for an
award.
35,000
points is
enough for any Marriott Property on a
Point Saver
Award or 1 night at any category 7 or below properties.
10 nights during the promotion would earn
enough points for a Points & Cash award at any Hyatt property in the worl
points for a
Points & Cash award at any Hyatt property in the worl
Points & Cash
award at any Hyatt property in the world.....
With Chase Ultimate Rewards
points transferring over to both United Mileage Plus and Aer Lingus and with Ultimate Rewards and Amex Membership Rewards transferring over to British Airways Avios, pulling together
enough points for a transatlantic
award to Seattle shouldn't be an issue....
10 nights during the promotional period would earn you
enough points for a Points & Cash award at any Hyatt property in the world... and there are some nice ones out
points for a
Points & Cash award at any Hyatt property in the world... and there are some nice ones out
Points & Cash
award at any Hyatt property in the world... and there are some nice ones out there!
That's
enough for a free night
award at any Category 6 property (there are only a small number of Category 7 hotels that cost 30,000
points per night).
At the end of the year, one grand prize winner will be
awarded 200,000
points,
enough for at least 20 free nights at Wyndham tier three properties or below.
My wife and I use the same Expedia Rewards account, we have been using it
for a couple years, and we still haven't gotten
enough points to redeem
for the
award we want.
Want to redeem
points, but don't have
enough to qualify
for an
award?
Not losing focus is a pretty key element to making sure you earn
enough miles /
points for whatever
awards you're aiming
for so, if you're in the process of accumulating Avios
for a British Airways redemption, you should probably carry on down that path and not split your earnings.
Now through October 31, 2017, Wyndham Rewards members can earn up to 15,000 bonus
points —
enough for a go free
award — when they pay using Masterpass.
So, if you were to buy
enough points for a full
award, this is how much you'd end up paying
for each category of hotel:
Having said all of that, and because there are some good redemptions to be had courtesy of the LifeMiles
award chart, that's not
enough for me to completely rule out a transfer of ThankYou
points.
You can also transfer
points between accounts
for the purpose of booking an
award, so it's entirely possible
for your spouse or domestic partner to buy more
points if that isn't
enough.