The catch is that these packages have a starting cost of 200,000 Marriott Rewards points, so they are only available to those with a large number
of points in their account.
If you don't have
enough points in your account, you can sometimes find Points + Cash availability so that you can pay partly with points and the rest with cash.
It will take 6 - 8 weeks for you to see your
bonus points in your account so don't expect to make a purchase and redeem your points for tickets the next day.
The boost is applied in the form of a 35 % rebate, so you'll still need the total
points in your account at the time of booking.
You must have at least 500
rewards points in your account to purchase points, and you can't purchase more than 10,000 rewards points in a single calendar year.
So even though I didn't have enough Club Carlson
points in my account for the second night, I was able to redeem for a two night stay because of the second night free benefit.
Each Fidelity credit card must be linked to a Fidelity account, which makes it easier for a card holder to put rewards
points in accounts like an IRA or 401K.
For the Amex cards, the 2 cents per point valuation comes in the form of a 50 % rebate, so you'll need double the number of required
points in your account in order to make redemptions with half the points returned afterwards.
More than once I've been warned about the possibility of losing
points in an account without activity, or I've found an opportunity to use a small number of points wasting away in another account rather than tapping my own larger horde.
If notified of a cardholder's death, Chase will automatically redeem any remaining Ultimate Rewards points as a statement credit if the number of
points in the account meets the minimum threshold for redemption.
The best time of year to do these packages is in January, because once you hit 110,000 Companion Pass
Qualifying points in your account, you get the pass for the rest of the year you qualify and the entire next year.
While the most you can earn as a bonus is 20,000 miles, it can still be worth it if you have
orphan points in an account you rarely use.
Thanks to the points earned from meeting the card's minimum spend, and a grocery promotion recently, I have a little more than 5,000
Hyatt points in my account, which is enough for a 1 - night stay at a basic place.
I am considering a four night PointBreaks stay, which would cost 20k points, and it is always a good idea to have at least 5k points left in your IHG account because you need to have at least 5k
points in your account already to buy more points for 0.7 cents each through this trick.
If you close a Chase credit card yourself, you will lose your Ultimate Rewards
points in that account unless you use them OR transfer them to another Chase credit card account that earns Ultimate Rewards points within 30 days after your account is closed.
If you have a Citi Premier or Citi Prestige card and a few
ThankYou points in your account, you can buy miles indirectly through the ThankYou Rewards program at a cost of only 2.5 cents per mile (or less when transfer bonuses are in effect).