Originally Posted by
RJ5929
I intend to visit Europe this summer (10-14 days) from DFW. I would appreciate any help/pointers in that direction. We are family of 3 including me. I would like to visit London, Brussels, Luxembourg, Paris, Zurich and Rome. Either north to south or south2north. These are my miles
Mine / Wife's
UR - 60,000
Hilton - 55,000 / 51,000
Marriott - 70,000
Is it possible to get hotels with Hilton and Marriott points above. I do not want to pay for hotel. Is there another card that I could get whose points would be helpful in booking hotels for this trip?
I'll take a crack at the hotel part of your question. If you don't want to pay for hotel and you're planning to travel for 2 weeks, you need to earn more hotel points, full stop. The hotels in these cities require a lot of points and you don't have that many. If you don't use UR points by transferring to airlines, you can transfer them to hotels.
I'd also recommend signing up for the Chase IHG Rewards Club Visa and another Hilton card or 2. The Citi Reserve comes with 2 certificates good at any Hilton property and gold status.
You might also consider booking Points + Cash stays - it will be a lot less than an all cash or all points stay and both Hilton and IHG offer this option at many of their properties. IHG also has a quarterly "points break" list of hotels where you can book a room for only 5000 points/night.
Here is the current list available until 3/31.
The other thing I like about these 2 chains is that they include breakfast if you have a certain status level (achieved with the credit cards). The buffets may not be amazing, but a free breakfast certainly helps to reduce your costs.