Originally Posted by
Finkface
Can someone shed some light on this for me? I must be really dumb but I don’t get the value of the TP.
I am looking at a 7 night stay at a Cat 6 property. At 50k per night and the 5th night free, seven nights will cost me 300k points. The cat 6 TP’s cost:
Category 6 435,000 for 7 nights plus 50k miles and
Category 6 510,000 for 7 nights plus 100k miles
What am I missing? Is ‘buying’ 50k miles for 135,000 MR points or 100k miles for 210,000 MR that good of a deal?
The TPs
used to be great value. Using Category 6 (i.e. OC9) as an example, you used to be able to buy it + 100k miles for 370,000 MR points (140,000 MR less than the new pricing!).
You could 'buy' up to 120k miles per TP (plus 10% more with United), with each increase being 1 MR point per mile, i.e. OC9 + 120k miles used to be 390,000 MR points. 1 MR point per mile for most people represented great value especially compared to your analysis/question above (135,000 MR points for 50k miles, or 2.7 MR points per mile).