How to redeem Hotel Awards from overseas

[kapitan]

As per title, I residein Singapore and would like to spend some of my ROP miles to redeem hotel awards for Bangkok. Anyone did it before?

[Rampo]

I've booked hotels several times from the USA. First contact Royal Orchid Plus to redeem miles for a voucher.
[https://www.thaiair.com/AIP_ROP/AwardRedemption] It will probably take 3 or 4 weeks to get the voucher.

Then you contact the hotel that you want to book. I've always done it by email.
[https://www.thaiair.com/frequent-fly...ng-hotels.htm] The hotel typically asks that a copy of the voucher be sent. You can do it by fax, but I usually scan the voucher and send it as a jpg or pdf attachment to an email.

[kittiyut]

Wouldn't the miles be better used towards a free flight? You get more value for your miles that way. Besides, hotels in BKK are already (relatively) cheap.

[kapitan]

Originally Posted by kittiyut

Wouldn't the miles be better used towards a free flight? You get more value for your miles that way. Besides, hotels in BKK are already (relatively) cheap.

Well, I clock over a 150k miles a year with Thai and I fly mostly to EU in J, with stopover in Bangkok, so sometimes I would like to book into a good hotel for a few days before the homeward bound flight. I have more then enough miles in the bank to redeem free flights for the family too....