Originally Posted by chauming
You paid? Anyway, let's simplify things. What was the amount of Marriott points you converted to AA miles?
For future reference,
here's the link to the description of the Marriott Travel Packages. Scroll down to "Hotel + Air".
I "bought" award code 083 for 235,000 points. This is 7 nights in a Category 1-5 property, plus 120,000 miles. A Category 5 7-night award is 115,000 points, so I got the miles at the rate of 1 Marriott point = 1 airline mile.
I can earn Marriott points at the rate of at least 16/$ (10/$ basic + 30% plat bonus + 3/$ MR Visa card) and sometimes more during promotions. Once you get past the "hump" of the hotel award, that's a mileage-earning rate only surpassed by actual flying!
At the time (this was earlier this year), AA was offering a 20% bonus on MR -> AA transfers. So, the 120K became 144K AA miles.
I can't find a link to the AA -> HH chart, but it's in my HHonors booklet.