Using AA miles for hotel stays
 

Are you aware that you can use your American Airlines miles for hotel stays. Really a big help if you are short of money and have lots of miles

Not my preferred choice of redemption, but I've heard some deals are better than what's being offered by hotel chains and it's always great to have options.

Here is the AA link.

This seems to be a change. Previously AA miles could be converted directly to Hilton (and others) but I'm no longer seeing that as an option. Webflyer still shows the conversion rate as 1 AA to 2 HH points.

The hotel option for me, however it is done, may be more valuable than flights on AA. I almost always need a hotel on pleasure travel, but not always a flight on AA.

Go the the AA site and look for AA vacations. I got some great hotels in Hawaii for next year.

You can still do it, but it's now a 3:5 conversion rate instead of 1:2. (Though if you follow the link to points.com, they still give 1:2.)

http://www.aa.com/i18n/AAdvantage/pa...ltonHotels.jsp

Are you saying you can use miles for the AA vacations?

delta
 

you can use delta miles also for hotel stays.

OK, I found the AA vacations and see I can use points. So it looks like these are about 1.2 cents a mile, which isn't that great, but usefull if you have a lot of miles and don't want to spend the cash.

Thanks for the info

We are also possibly looking at going to Hawaii. PM me if you get a chance with what deals you found. .

I could not see how to use Delta miles for hotels. Please help!

www.marketplace.delta.com

and then click on 'Book a Hotel / Rent a Car' (mid page, LHS)

Thanks, I just signed up for the SunTrust Delta deal. So that may be a good way to use those miles once I get them. I picked up 5 cards for $55 each. So that would give me 125K miles, which should get me a nice hotel stay for a week or more for only $275.

Wow, Delta are SkyPesos. The same hotel for same dates from AA versus Delta is 10,100 AA versus 26,466 miles from Delta! This is with both saying it is a 35% discount.

Another hotel, 9,967/night AA, and 25,488 from Delta!

Guess I am going to need to find a better way to use these Delta miles.>

Looks like great deals in Las Vegas, but in the Los Angeles area, the available hotels are only in a small part of the metropolitan area. I needed a room in Riverside, all that was offerred was downtown LA and the beach areas.

aa is new
 

this is a new feature for AA and you can book car rental or hotel at very good prices mileswise vs DL or UA....UA wanted twice the miles for same car rentals...hotels were same story. only thing I don't like is the fees and taxes added on by the car rental places are not revealed or included...am currently in talks with AA and Budget to find a price quote on exactly what I will owe, so I dont show up at the counter to be ripped off. The budget people wouldnt talk to me and made me get AA reservations to call them, then they played games, hung up on them refused to answer their calls...ect. ect.
It may take a while to get to the true cost. As far as the Hotels go the only charge not include is the dreaded resort fee. I booked 2 nights at the waikiki sheraton princess keaulani for 27k for high floor ocean view rates started at 10.5k a night which is better than 10k a night SPG points considering you can trade 20k SPG for 25k miles also 10k spg would only reserve a standard room whereas we booked 4 catagories up with AA. still have to pay the $12.50 resort fee but it includes parking which used to run $20 a night so it's a good deal. It's a nice way to use the extra miles from the citi card offers considering we only need 125k for F to Europe....they have little else appealing domestically from ATL so getting 15 nights car rental for 28k and 27k for 2 nights at a low end spg hotel will keep about $600 im my pocket for our hawaii vacation.....plus I'm keeping all my SPG points for next time.
I wouldnt be surprised to see the cost in points increase after the initial launch, they will become as greedy as DL or UA with the rates once the word gets out....and like the other carriers they claim discounted rates for elite will be part of the deal.

Yes. You can use AA miles for hotel stays.