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Jun 23, 2019, 7:19 pm

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Originally Posted by milemonkey

I currently do not have enough Ultimate Rewards points for a hotel stay. I'm concerned the price will go up or it won't be available when I have enough points.

If I book the stay now through the UR portal using cash, can I then convert that reservation later to pay with points? If so, how would I do this?

You could book with cash and then redeem your UR points as a statement credit to pay for the amount of the cash booking. You'd get $.01 per point by doing that.