Which Marriott Travel Package?
 

Hello FT,

I'm torn on whether to take 120k AS (Alaska) or 152k United miles with the 235k Marriott travel package.

Balances:
400k UR
175k Amex
140k AA
235k Marriott
30k AS

The main use of my miles are J/F cabins to Asia and SE Asia.
I occasionally travel to Europe as well.

In my case, should I take the United or AS miles?

TIA

Knew it was one or the other. Thanks for the clarification.

Anyone know when they usually offer these bonuses?

Is UA bonus still at 20%? The website seemed to show it is 10% only. Thanks.

If you travel J/F to Asia why would you consider anything other than AS, which gets you Cathay Pacific and Korean, or even the longer way round with Emirates?

It's 152k miles for the travel package. I looked up the landing page earlier but forgot where it was.

AS is the winner since you have more partners and need less miles to get an award ticket in the front of the plane to fly to Asia.

Thanks guys!

I'm even considering doing it twice or even 3x for 240k or 360k AS.
The only concern is if a devaluation is coming up..what do you guys think?

The 20K bonus will not post until after Jan 31st 2017.

The 20% transfer bonus is offered by UA and is capped at 20K. You need to register on the bonus else you do not get it.

It is independent from the 10% extra on TP redemption.

TP is 132K. The 20% bonus is not a regular bonus. Need registration to get that. UA ran the same promotion last year.

Correct.

Have you compared award charts among programs?

As a starter AS chart is partner specific. US to Asia on CX with stopover at HKG on one way or if you like, both direction on 2 one-ways, is 60K in J 70K in F one way. UA is 80K on partner. ditto AA, and 110K in F. Neither allows stopover on one way. UA has stopover on r/t. AA has none.

AS still uses old AA rate on AA chart.

For the 5 nights package, you can certainly call but Marriott has plugged the loophole published by the bloggers since 6 or 9 months ago. Nobody has reported any success in redeeming 5 nights in the past several months when not being a Vacation Club owner. In any case even if you would forfeit 2 nights you would still come out way ahead in the ratio of Marriott pts to airline miles redeeming the TP.

Can 5-night travel packages still be booked?
 

I have the same question as a previous poster - has anyone (who is not a timeshare owner) had recent success in booking a 5-night travel package? I have called twice in the past week, and both agents responded almost immediately that this package is only available for timeshare owners. It seems they may have been trained to enforce their policy more strictly since the blog posts a few months ago. Before I continue calling, I wanted to see if anyone has had recent success (and if you would be willing to make any suggestions). Thank you!

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I tried myself and had no luck trying to get the 5 night package. It looks like Marriott is actually enforcing the timeshare requirement.

Devaluations happen. Hard to tell. But I would expect one from United before AS (which has to intergrate VX and try not to alienate those new customers)

Redeemed for Travel package + Alaska miles on November 22, still no miles in my Alaska account :(

I see some CX J availability for the dates I want, I hope it's still there when the miles finally arrive to my Alaska account :eek:

Any other data points for Alaska miles Travel Package redemptions ?