Converting Hotel points to Avios
Oct 31, 19, 12:16 am
#4
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: SEA, but up and down the coast a lot
Programs: OneSky Alliance Elite+ with Zirconium and oak leaf cluster, Braniff Unobtainium
Posts: 18,312
Maybe Marriott, everything else is giving up bigger value in hotel rooms for considerably smaller value in flights. Unless you value hotel programs at basically nothing or have more point
s than God and will never spend them, or it’s Marriott where 60k turns into 33,750 Avios (which isn’t a terrible deal).
s than God and will never spend them, or it’s Marriott where 60k turns into 33,750 Avios (which isn’t a terrible deal).
Oct 31, 19, 6:40 am
#6
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: LON
Programs: Mucci, BAEC, Eurostar
Posts: 1,657
Well it depends, I passed last time, but I have 6k Radisson points which expire next month, and which I will most likely never use so I think I'll move them across, but that's only 600 Avios I think. Otherwise, I'm not touching my stash of Hilton or Marriott points, no.
Oct 31, 19, 7:24 am
#7
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: IAH
Programs: BA G, AA G(1MM), Hilton D
Posts: 209
IMHO - not great exchange rates, even with bonus, so I'm with what others have said: little attraction to convert. My own reasoning is that having a stock of HH and IHG points can come in very useful on short notice trips. On an unplanned road trip (US) last year, cheapest hotel was $300 with taxes, but we found a great deal where <20k IHG points covered it. 20k IHG = 5400 Avios (inc bonus).
