Not exact matches
By
converting your Marriott
Rewards to Starpoints, you're getting to stay in great
hotels for fewer
points.
As we discussed above, you must have at least 1 premium Ultimate
Rewards card to
convert the cash - back you earn from cards with no annual fee to
points that can be transferred to airline and
hotel partners.
A great way to use Membership
Rewards points: Overall a great way to get value out of
points you've accrued is by taking advantage of the loyalty program transfer, which allows you to
convert Membership
Rewards into an airline or
hotels loyalty awards.
-LSB-...] What we like most about the card is that its
reward program allows you to
convert Chase
Points into any one of 11 different frequent flyer and
hotel programs.
«Purchased
points,
points transferred between Members,
points converted from
hotel and car loyalty programs, and e-
Rewards, e-Miles, Valued Opinions, and Diners Club,
points earned from Rapid
Rewards program enrollment, tier bonus
points, flight bonus
points, and Partner bonus
points (excluding bonus
points earned on the Rapid
Rewards Credit Cards from Chase) do not qualify as Companion Pass qualifying
points.»
Don't forget that SPG and Marriott are merging, so you have the added benefit of
converting SPG
points to Marriott
Rewards (or vice versa) to redeem SPG
points toward Marriott
hotels.
You'll earn 2 airline miles per $ 1 for
hotel stays, and you can also
convert points into miles when redeeming for a miles
reward.
Membership
Rewards points can also
convert to Hilton HHonors
points for your
hotel upgrades.
«Purchased
points,
points transferred between Members,
points converted from
hotel and car loyalty programs, and e-
Rewards, e-Miles, Valued Opinions, and Diners Club,
points earned from Rapid
Rewards program enrollment, tier bonus
points, flight bonus
points, and Partner bonus
points (excluding bonus
points earned on the Rapid
Rewards Credit Cards from Chase) do not qualify as Companion Pass qualifying
points.»
As we discussed above, you must have at least 1 premium Ultimate
Rewards card to
convert the cash - back you earn from cards with no annual fee to
points that can be transferred to airline and
hotel partners.
In addition, Rapid
Rewards members who are also members of Carlson Rezidor's
hotel loyalty program, Club Carlson, can
convert their Gold
Points into Rapid Rewards p
Points into Rapid
Rewards pointspoints.
High - End
Hotels: If you want room and board at a bucket list bungalow, accrue
hotel points or transferrable points, such as American Express Membership Rewards points, Chase Ultimate Rewards points, or Citibank ThankYou Points, which can be converted into hotel p
points or transferrable
points, such as American Express Membership Rewards points, Chase Ultimate Rewards points, or Citibank ThankYou Points, which can be converted into hotel p
points, such as American Express Membership
Rewards points, Chase Ultimate Rewards points, or Citibank ThankYou Points, which can be converted into hotel p
points, Chase Ultimate
Rewards points, or Citibank ThankYou Points, which can be converted into hotel p
points, or Citibank ThankYou
Points, which can be converted into hotel p
Points, which can be
converted into
hotel pointspoints.
Hotels: Hyatt, Intercontinental
Hotel Group (IHG), Marriott
Rewards (which can be
converted to Starwood Preferred Guest
points) and Ritz - Carlton
Rewards
By
converting your Marriott
Rewards to Starpoints, you're getting to stay in great
hotels for fewer
points.
We enable guests to earn, redeem and
convert points to free nights at 1.1 million lodging choices globally as well as for other programs though the marketplace, including
hotel rewards, airline frequent flyer miles, eGift cards, merchandise, charities, and more.
An often unmentioned aspect of the United MileagePlus program is that you can
convert points from various
hotel rewards programs into United MileagePlus miles... but there's a reason it's often unmentioned — it's almost always a terrible deal.
While SPG members can buy Starpoints to use to book award nights at upscale
hotels, better uses may be to
convert the Starpoints to airline miles or to
convert them to Marriott
Rewards points and then use those to book Flight &
Hotel packages.
If you
convert 270,000 Marriott
reward points during this promotion, you get 144,000 AAdvantage Miles and 7 consecutive nights stay at a Category 1 - 5
hotel in Marriott Portfolio.
If you buy your full Starpoint allowance (30,000) you could
convert them to 90,000 Marriott
Rewards Points, add them to your existing Marriott
Rewards balance and then redeem them for one of the Flight &
Hotel packages.
In that case, I would be
converting Membership
Rewards to 1.6 cents worth of Hilton
point per Membership
Reward, which would be higher than the 1.5 cents per
point I'd get with using Ultimate
Rewards to book a
hotel.
Marriott allows you to
convert Marriott
points into these flight and
hotel packages that allow you to maximize the value of your Marriott
Rewards points.
Members of Virgin's Elevate program can now earn Elevate
points at participating Marriott
Rewards hotels, and Marriott
Rewards members can
convert Marriott
Rewards points into Elevate
points.
If an Etihad Guest member holds credit cards and / or
Hotel loyalty programme cards of different banks and
hotels and
converts the
rewards points to Etihad Guest Miles under this promotion, then the number of Bonus Guest Miles he / she will earn will reflect separately in the members account for each partner.
The reason that you need to have multiple cards to take full advantage of earning free flights is that different card providers partner with different airlines for
converting points into frequent flier miles or
hotel rewards points.
At first glance, this appears to be a very lucrative offer given that Marriott
Hotel + Air Packages offer exceptional value and these promotions usually stack with the packages, but this promotion appears to specifically exclude these packages from these bonus transfers («Travel Packages:
Points converted to AAdvantage miles as part of a Marriott
Rewards / AAdvantage travel package do not qualify for this promotion.»)
But in general Starpoints will be more valuable when used for
hotel stays thanks to Marriott tripling them when they're
converted to Marriott
Rewards points.
Purchased
points, transferred points transferred between members, points converted from hotel and car loyalty programs, and e-Rewards, e-Miles, Valued Opinions and Diners Club, points earned from program enrollment, tier bonus points, flight bonus points, and partner bonus points (with the exception of the Rapid Rewards Credit Cards from Chase) do not qualify as Companion Pass Qualifying Points.&
points, transferred
points transferred between members, points converted from hotel and car loyalty programs, and e-Rewards, e-Miles, Valued Opinions and Diners Club, points earned from program enrollment, tier bonus points, flight bonus points, and partner bonus points (with the exception of the Rapid Rewards Credit Cards from Chase) do not qualify as Companion Pass Qualifying Points.&
points transferred between members,
points converted from hotel and car loyalty programs, and e-Rewards, e-Miles, Valued Opinions and Diners Club, points earned from program enrollment, tier bonus points, flight bonus points, and partner bonus points (with the exception of the Rapid Rewards Credit Cards from Chase) do not qualify as Companion Pass Qualifying Points.&
points converted from
hotel and car loyalty programs, and e-
Rewards, e-Miles, Valued Opinions and Diners Club,
points earned from program enrollment, tier bonus points, flight bonus points, and partner bonus points (with the exception of the Rapid Rewards Credit Cards from Chase) do not qualify as Companion Pass Qualifying Points.&
points earned from program enrollment, tier bonus
points, flight bonus points, and partner bonus points (with the exception of the Rapid Rewards Credit Cards from Chase) do not qualify as Companion Pass Qualifying Points.&
points, flight bonus
points, and partner bonus points (with the exception of the Rapid Rewards Credit Cards from Chase) do not qualify as Companion Pass Qualifying Points.&
points, and partner bonus
points (with the exception of the Rapid Rewards Credit Cards from Chase) do not qualify as Companion Pass Qualifying Points.&
points (with the exception of the Rapid
Rewards Credit Cards from Chase) do not qualify as Companion Pass Qualifying
Points.&
Points.»
These packages allow you to
convert Marriott
rewards points into 7 nights in a Marriott
hotel plus the airline miles you might need to get there.
Purchased
points,
points transferred between members,
points converted from
hotel and car loyalty programs, and e-
Rewards, e-Miles, Valued Opinions and Diners Club,
points earned from Rapid
Rewards program enrollment, tier bonuses, flight bonuses, and partner bonuses (excluding bonus
points earned on Southwest Rapid
Rewards Credit Cards from Chase) do not count toward Companion Pass.
In most
hotel acquisitions the target's (so in this case, Starwood's) loyalty program is
converted to the acquirer's loyalty program, so the most likely outcome is that the Starwood Preferred Guest program will be folded into Marriott
Rewards and Starpoints will be
converted to Marriott
Rewards points.