FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - If you had 3.7 Million IHG point, how would you use them?

Aug 27, 2018, 2:28 am

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Originally Posted by Unterwegs

Converting into airline miles sounds attractive to me.
Instead of spending 50.000 points for a 250 US$ hotel room (where you get more points and possibly RA status for the next year when paid with cash) has a value of less than 0.5 cents per point.
If you can get a first class award ticket which costs 10.000 US$ for around 150.000-200.000 miles or 750.000 to 1M miles then this sounds tempting.

This is the usual incorrect logic regarding first class plane tickets.

First of all, you would never spend $10k. Second of all, you can use the points on hotel stays and take the cash you save on those hotel nights and simply buy airline miles during a promo - you'd end up spending far less...

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