Originally Posted by
spike74
I'm interested in using my AAdvantage miles for hotel stays or maybe other non-airline travel rewards (maybe gift cards for credit cards, restaurants etc..).
Can miles be converted directly into hotel points without doing a trade on points.com or some other site?
Which hotel chains have the best conversion rate?
Well, transferring miles to points account (or vice versa) is surely a losing proposition. On top of bad conversion rate, you would end up with "residual" miles / points in one or both accounts. A much better bet would be to try and book hotel directly from AA website using miles. You can do that through:
https://www.useaamiles.com/carhotel/
Rates for using miles for hotels above may not be the best, but I strongly believe it would be much better than transferring miles to some other account.
Cheers!