2009 Million Point Club
Jan 4, 2010, 7:50 pm
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Oct 2009
Programs: Priority Club
Posts: 16
2009 Million Point Club
Anyone else with me in earning 1M+ points in '09?
Status - Platinum Royal Ambassador (Dec. '09)
Total points - 1,034,042
Total nights - 267
Avg points / night = 3,873
My average isn't very good, but I didn't really start registering for promos till April or so and didn't find this site till June or July.
Also, I usually stay at Holiday Inn.
Hopefully, I won't be on the road so much this year...
Status - Platinum Royal Ambassador (Dec. '09)
Total points - 1,034,042
Total nights - 267
Avg points / night = 3,873
My average isn't very good, but I didn't really start registering for promos till April or so and didn't find this site till June or July.
Also, I usually stay at Holiday Inn.
Hopefully, I won't be on the road so much this year...
Last edited by Quizarate; Jan 4, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Jan 4, 2010, 9:09 pm
#3
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: YYZ
Programs: SPG Plat,MR Plat Spire Plat/IC Amb, Choice Plat, BW Plat
Posts: 1,320
Geez....267 nights and there is only 252-255 US Business days biz days a year....you'll have to work even harder to find time to use your points. Congrats on 1mil+
Jan 4, 2010, 9:41 pm
#4
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: OAK
Programs: AS MVPG 100k
Posts: 3,756
Welcome to FT !
The more you stay, the harder it is to keep the pts/nt average up - but you still did pretty well if you didn't find FT until mid-year
I figure that if you spent an average of ~$100/nt you were probably in the 5-6k/nt range after you found FT, which is pretty good going at that earnings level.
The more you stay, the harder it is to keep the pts/nt average up - but you still did pretty well if you didn't find FT until mid-year
I figure that if you spent an average of ~$100/nt you were probably in the 5-6k/nt range after you found FT, which is pretty good going at that earnings level.
Jan 4, 2010, 10:03 pm
#5
Join Date: May 2004
Location: SIN (LEJ once a year)
Programs: SQ, LH, BA, IHG Diamond AMB, HH Gold, SLH Indulged, Accor Gold, Hyatt Discoverist
Posts: 7,739
Congrats. That's impressive (# nights) and scary at the same time 
. I think some people may be able to match that but then lots of us split nights between 2-3 chains to have status & points in several programs in case something goes wrong with one of them. Cheers ...
. I think some people may be able to match that but then lots of us split nights between 2-3 chains to have status & points in several programs in case something goes wrong with one of them. Cheers ...
Jan 5, 2010, 7:04 pm
#8
Original Poster
Join Date: Oct 2009
Programs: Priority Club
Posts: 16
Funny you should post this. I'm thinking about doing two of the ultimate experiances. Last year the 'Platinum Experience Voucher' was 475k points, but I just checked what it is now and it is currently 500k points... though that has US09 as the year. Wonder if they'll go even higher for US10.
Jan 5, 2010, 7:39 pm
#9
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 11,377
I guess some of them are hard to put a value on, but 500K points has quite a bit of value--
494000 $1300 of gift cards
501000 $2100 of Any Hotel Anywhere amex gift cards
500000 ca. $1550-$1850 of Flights Anywhere redemptions
480000 12 IC nights anywhere in the world
EDIT: Cloud9 also sells their awards for cash. The 500K PCR redemption ones are in the $2000-$2500 range. I'm not sure most of them are really worth that much, but that's their price.
http://www.cloud9living.com/experien...s/price-2500/d
Last edited by soitgoes; Jan 5, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Jan 5, 2010, 8:06 pm
#10
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Programs: Priority Club
Posts: 16
I hear you regarding value.
I look at the experiance though... I'd never pay to do the fighter pilot school or go to the Dayton 500, but I think both experiances have a value that is hard to quantify.
Just imagining the adrenaline rush while performing rolls and high speed dives in a vintage WW2 fighter gives me a rush. To actually experiance the real thing at the cost of doing nthing more than my normal job and travelling for work seems like a good deal...
I look at the experiance though... I'd never pay to do the fighter pilot school or go to the Dayton 500, but I think both experiances have a value that is hard to quantify.
Just imagining the adrenaline rush while performing rolls and high speed dives in a vintage WW2 fighter gives me a rush. To actually experiance the real thing at the cost of doing nthing more than my normal job and travelling for work seems like a good deal...
Last edited by Quizarate; Jan 5, 2010 at 8:13 pm
Jan 6, 2010, 9:27 am
#11
Join Date: Mar 2009
Programs: IC.Spire Amb. Turkish Elite
Posts: 222
Do you own or rent an apartment/home ? Spending so much time in hotels kind of looks like a waste of money on rent/mortgage/property tax/homeowners insurance. You should look into checking into a Candlewood/Staybridge suite for the few days currently spent outside of HI. That way you can earn a coulple of extra thousands of points for some flights.
Jan 6, 2010, 6:24 pm
#12
Original Poster
Join Date: Oct 2009
Programs: Priority Club
Posts: 16
Do you own or rent an apartment/home ? Spending so much time in hotels kind of looks like a waste of money on rent/mortgage/property tax/homeowners insurance. You should look into checking into a Candlewood/Staybridge suite for the few days currently spent outside of HI. That way you can earn a coulple of extra thousands of points for some flights.
Right now there is a Candlewood close by so I have been staying there on the weekends or visiting friends, family, travelling on the weekends. Getting tired of it now though.
Jan 8, 2010, 10:54 am
#13
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: London
Programs: VS Gold, IHG RA/Plat, Marriott Plat
Posts: 763
dgwright99 is absolutely right. If I am you, I would probably create 3-4 PCR accounts with different address, so each account can benefit from maximum number of promotion codes.
In that way, your average will be even higher.
In that way, your average will be even higher.
Jan 8, 2010, 6:37 pm
#14
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: MUNICH, GERMANY
Programs: IC Plat. Royal Ambassador, HHonors Gold, Air Berlin Topbonus Gold, Miles & More FT, SIXT Diamond
Posts: 557
wow, there we have an annual point millionaire.
Not bad.
Hope for you, that your bank account also grows that fast ;-)
Not bad.
Hope for you, that your bank account also grows that fast ;-)
Jan 9, 2010, 7:25 am
#15
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: UK
Programs: Bonvoy Gold, AA Plat, Volare Premier, VS Silver, National Emerald Elite, Hertz President Circle
Posts: 2,526
Looking at the OP's post count I conclude:
Those who can, travel (and accrue pts); those who can't, post (on flyertalk and chat about it).
Well done OP!
By the way, I trust you have your home address written somewhere in case one day you forget!
Those who can, travel (and accrue pts); those who can't, post (on flyertalk and chat about it).
Well done OP!
By the way, I trust you have your home address written somewhere in case one day you forget!