Originally Posted by
mpd22
Hi All,
I have 5400 redundant Hertz points that I am unable to redeem for a rental. I was wondering if anyone knows of a transfer that I can do to turn these into HHonors points. Currently they only allow transfers to Marriott or IHG, is there a work around where I can transfer them to an airline program and then into HHonors points?
Double conversions rarely make any sense because programs take a cut of value every time you do a conversion (since this means someone has to write a check to someone else for inter-program transfers, it's an incentive to reduce the value of your points); you're probably going to get very limited Hilton point value for your 5400 points doing Hertz->airline->Hilton.
That being said, Hertz points can be transferred to Hawaiian Airlines at 600 Hertz:500 HA, which can then be transferred to Hilton at 1 HA: 1.5 Hilton... but you must transfer a minimum of 10,000 HA, which you will not have if you transfer Hertz into an empty HA account.
So, the short answer is "yes, it's possible, but in your case probably a really bad idea."