MilesBuzz! - Orphan miles to Hilton?

Hi all

Further to Ozstamps thread on getting stacks of Hilton points by transferring orphan bonus miles from various FF accounts I wish to ask the following.

Shortly my Frecuenta miles will be transferred to Hilton. Yay.

However I am sitting here examining my orphan miles. I have 8,000 kilometres, 4000
of which expire at the end of this year. Can I transfer these to Hilton or Marriott or somewhere else useful?

I also have

4,000 Aeromexico miles,
5,000 Latinpass miles
1,000 Smiles miles

Any ideas - anybody successfully transferred
these to Hilton? Or anywhere else useful for that matter?

cheers Peter



[This message has been edited by ffhound (edited 11-28-2000).]

If your 5,000 LatinPass miles were from an enrollment bonus, then they're completely worthless. They can't be transferred to Marriott or Hilton or even used on a partner award ticket with US, KL, or TW. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

Not good

I have however written to Latinpass asking that they transfer my miles to Marriott (fingers crossed - you never know).

I have some good news however. I visited the Lanpass site and they are giving away 1500 kilometres for updating your profile. Shades of the Hilton promotion methinks! Anyway this will bring me up to 9500 points. I should get 1000 bonus points for christmas which will give me enough to transfer!

10,000 points = 10,000 Hilton points!

Ditto for my spouse.

cheers Peter

A while ago I asked Guy Booth of Latin Pass if any Latin Pass miles can be converted to Hilton and he said yes.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum97/HTML/000095.html

[This message has been edited by PG (edited 11-28-2000).]

How are those guys going that got the million latin pass miles? Always was interested if they would get them all transferred?

I have also found Starwood very useful at times for this.