MilesBuzz! - What would you do with 300,000 AMEX MR Points?

I am looking for some suggestions regarding the use of 300,000 MR points. Has anyone here used them for something interesting or useful. As you can probably tell, I have never redeemed them for an award, and I would like the biggest bang for the point.

I would love to hear your suggestions.

I transfer mine to Delta and use them for free first class tickets on Singapore Air. A first class ticket to S.E. Asia is 130,000 miles.

I transfer mine to CO, then Hilton at 2:1 ratio, then to AA where I really need them.

You could do the promo mentioned here:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum21/HTML/006023.html

Sell the rights to them on eBay. A recent seller got $8,800 for the rights to use 500,000 of his AMEX MR points. On that basis, you could net $5,280.

Don't know if this is legal, though.

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can you explain how your AMEX-CO-HILTON-AA dance works on a points to points basis?

My father has a jillion Amex points and desparately wants advice.
Thanks in advance,
The Anvil.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by FlyingRev:
I am looking for some suggestions regarding the use of 300,000 MR points. Has anyone here used them for something interesting or useful. As you can probably tell, I have never redeemed them for an award, and I would like the biggest bang for the point.

I would love to hear your suggestions.</font>

Find someone willing to Swap at a better ratio than MR offers (i.e. I'd be willing to give up a healthy amount (10k - 15k) of LH Miles or BA Miles for 7k MR Points http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif ).

Regards,
Alex



[This message has been edited by alexwuk (edited 06-17-2002).]

I would move 160,000 of those miles to DL Skymiles, and fly Air France's Concorde to Paris. The other 140000 could pay for 2-3 nights in a nice hotel.

Sometimes, AF as this 2 Concorde tickets for 160000 miles promotion, I do not know if you can get it through Delta though.

Welcome af fp, it is nice to have you a part of this community. Can MR points be moved into Air France? I have never heard of this 2 fly on the Concorde for 160,000 points promotion. That would be very interesting.

I appreciate your ideas, and would like to hear more suggestions. Thanks!

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Always Flyin:
I transfer mine to Delta and use them for free first class tickets on Singapore Air. A first class ticket to S.E. Asia is 130,000 miles.</font>

There you have the best use for your points.

celticanvil -
If you transfer from AMEX to Hilton, the exchange ratio is 1000:1300. However, if you transfer to CO or DL, it's 1000:1000. Then if you use Hilton's exchange the CO or DL miles double going into HH points, so overall it 1000 AMEX going to 2000 HH. Other posts say to use Delta if time is a factor (this is even though Delta sends you a certicate that you send to HH.)

FlyingRev - I would certainly consider using some of your AMEX points (doubling them as above) for a VIP award. ALON being a favorite for 6 nights in Hawaii (100000 HH points costing you 50000 AMEX).

[This message has been edited by dave99 (edited 06-18-2002).]

I would spend several nights with my wife at the Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel.