It's a revenue based program, so you won't be able to have these amazing value
redemptions of few points at a luxury hotel.
Not exact matches
This award can only be redeemed for stays with a
redemption rate
of 35,000
points or
fewer.
There's a
few hotels where
redemption amounts will change 5,000 - 10,000
points with some increasing, and others decreasing and there's also a new maximum now
of 70,000
points per night, up from the previous high
of 60K.
The main strength
of this card is its high earning ability at restaurants (which very
few other cards give bonuses to), gas and groceries and its ease
of point redemption.
Many
of the big hotels — Hilton, Marriott, and Hyatt, just to name a
few — are upping the ante, offering additional incentives for frequent guests, like eliminating blackout dates for
points redemption.
This is because if you assume the cash you spend on a
Points + Cash redemption is effectively buying back points, you're buying back 20 % fewer points for the same amount of
Points + Cash
redemption is effectively buying back
points, you're buying back 20 % fewer points for the same amount of
points, you're buying back 20 %
fewer points for the same amount of
points for the same amount
of money.
While the average
redemption is around 16,000
points per night, members can get a free night for as
few as 8,000
points — one
of the lowest free night thresholds
of all major hotel programs.
Instead, I simply want to use the
fewest amount
of miles or
points for a given
redemption.
This is mostly because they earn Ultimate Rewards
points that can be redeemed for cruises, hotel stays, plane tickets, or transferred to another loyalty program to list a
few of the
redemption options.
If you need to look in a higher
redemption class, see if you can get an award ticket for the same or
fewer points by moving up a class
of service.
There is no way to plan in advance for these discounts, but occasionally Marriott will discount some
of its standard
redemption nights by a
few thousand
points.
I made a
few comparison searches and found
redemption values
of around 0.3 US cents per
point, making it a bad
redemption option.
Scotia Rewards Travel Service offers many benefits including Best Price Guarantee on Airfare, exclusive travel deals, discounts on car, hotel, airfare, and instant Scotia Rewards
point redemption at time
of booking, to name a
few.
Best Western imposes relatively
few restrictions on
redemption of points, so cashing in your card's rewards should be easy.
Surveys are a great way to earn a
few extra miles or
points if you're just shy
of the
redemption you're hoping to book.
In practice these are fairly blunt tools that tell me «1 cent a
point for American miles is a really good deal» but that I'm not going to spend 2 cents unless there's a very specific scenario — like a
few points at the margin to top off an account for an award I've put on hold — where it makes sense (and in that scenario, my valuation
of each
point is higher since they're helping me to save with a real
redemption).
Given that this bonus is only available at increments
of 20,000 Starpoints, I'd strongly encourage you to only transfer Marriott
points (via SPG) in increments
of 60,000
points (unless you have a specific
redemption in mind and need a
few extra miles).
not sure how CX
redemption rates are and most
of the other ones that you'd wan na fly (like EY, QR) have ridiculous
redemption rates for their own FFPs and it'd be a waste to transfer to em — unless you just had a
few millie thankyou
points laying around, collecting dust.
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