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smantl01 Mar 14, 2015 11:47 am

Best Value for Hotel/Accommodations Redemption
 
I've looked thru the forum & not finding a master thread that summarizes which hotel/accommodations (eg AirBNB) redemption options are the best value thru Membership Rewards. I'm looking at staying in NYC & WAS in a couple of weeks, and open to redeeming SPG, HY, MC, or HH points *or* redeeming for AirBNB credits. It feels like the AirBNB 25% bonus points, which effectively is a value of 1.25c/point is one of the better values right now.

Thoughts?

mia Mar 14, 2015 2:25 pm


Originally Posted by smantl01 (Post 24506715)
... open to redeeming SPG, HY, MC, or HH points *or* redeeming for AirBNB credits.

Membership Rewards (USA) has only four hotel points transfer partners:

http://www.membershiprewards.com/cat...llsite=y&rfs=1

Best Western 1000:1000
Choice 1000:1000
Hilton 1000:1500
Starwood 1000:333

There is no option to transfer to Hyatt. Not sure what "MC" is meant to represent. There are options to redeem points for various hotel chain gift cards at a fixed monetary value. My account is showing a "sale" on Hyatt gift cards at the rate 9000:$100, but see this thread:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...31-2015-a.html

To compare the points transfers to the gift card redemptions you will need to determine the number of points required for an award stay, compare that to the price of a room in dollars, and do the arithmetic.

LGA Mar 16, 2015 5:39 am

I think this site is great for quickly whipping up redemption options in an area: www.awardmapper.com

:)


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