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Old Nov 8, 2017 | 1:47 am
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Gongzuokuang
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My 300k IHG miles will get me maybe 7 nights in Hong Kong... valued at maybe a little more than $2000 USD based on $250-$300 per night at IHG properties.

They will normally transfer to Asia Miles at a 5:1 ratio, or in this case 60,000 AM.

With the bonus, it's 90,000 miles.

That's more than a one - way ORD-HKG J seat, making it an equal or greater value to me than using the points for hotel rooms.

The downside to this is that it appears it will take 5 months to get the bonus points added to the AM account (bonus points added March 2018). How stupid is that?! And 4-6 weeks to transfer the points? Are they sending them in an envelope via sea cargo?
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