Originally Posted by BigLar
Marriott Travel package: X points for 7 nights in a Marriott property, plus additional points to miles.
In my case, I paid an additional 120,000 points and got 120,000 AA miles. Because they were running a 20% bonus, I got 144,000 AA miles out of the deal. I had a few odd AA miles, and it totalled up to 150,000 AA miles.
They are transferred into Hilton @ 2 for 1, so 150,000 AA miles yields 300,000 Hilton Honors points.
@:-) Got it?
..... I respect the results of your "research" too.
Hotel programs are far more lucrative, when done right, than most airline programs -- and this is especially true if you can sleep/work in coach. I got hooked to hotel programs when I discovered that spending sub-320 USD to get 600+ dollars of award hotel nights was too easy.
(I was even thinking of hiring a homeless guy in DC to stay in hotels around the area for me as long as he gave me the award certificates. Unfortunately, a more trustworthy neighborhood homeless fellow could not be found that month.)