That's not accurate. There is a one time per year allowance for transfers of more than 50K so long as it's being used for a reward.

Thank you.

Wish you all the good luck...

No luck necessary. Though you do sound like a handful of agents who don't know the T&Cs and decide to make up things on your own.

And you might want to have a read here. You might just be enlightened.

Good luck with that.

Based on your situation, if it were me, I'd buy the cat 6 package with 132K United miles. United has the best European options. Lots of flights out of Boston on Lufthansa for instance. Not sure what will happen to the cat 6 but I think it's a good bet. I own one myself.

I've been absent from the miles game for awhile, just coming back into things now.
10 days to go, yikes!

I have 160k SPG points and 300k UR.

Original plan was to do a SPG -> TP southwest to get another CP, but I missed the boat on that.
Then I was planning to just do a normal redemption for a 4 night, 5th free at the ritz maui for 240k. But now that doesn't seem to be all that efficient.

With my 480k marriot, should I just cash out for a Tier1-3 for 420,000 and 120k alaska miles (fly SAN/BOS often).
Or people seem to be talking about cat 9 being the sweet spot?

Reading more, it seems as if many are being speculative with how marriot will refund the TPs and advising buying as many TPs as possible?
With the ultimate hope that marriot will refund 1:1 and then basically pocket the airline miles for free? Would be amazing :D

Or should I be considering buying extra marriot points with my UR?

Many thanks

You're in a tough spot if you're considering two packages. I would've suggested you buy 20K SPG points had this been pre-July 20 with the big discount they had. Chase UR points are a solid bet for $.02 each, meaning buying the 60,000 UR and turning those into MR with those doesn't seem like great value. I guess it really depends on how much you value those AS miles for flights along with the second cat 1-5 hotel stay. I probably wouldn't risk it in hopes of some big payout and instead would roll with the Tier 1-3 option. It seems like that has the potential to provide better value and may be worth the risk. But hey, that's just me.

I know AS miles are worth more (if you use them on CX or another longhaul), but if you're considering going to Hawaii, you may want to redeem for BA Avios in your TP. You can fly for 25k RT west coast to Hawaii on Alaska, booking through BA. If you are based out of SAN, AS flies a number of directs to Hawaii.

Finally spg points transferred so called tonight to redeem - nope - system update everything down... tried call centers in three different countries - this is worldwide.. hope the thing is still available tomorrow..

I did this 4 times last year to purchase travel packages, so there isn't even a one time limit. But as you said, chances are the agents aren't aware

The wording suggests the limitation is once per account outbound rather than into.

Mine took 9 days recently.

Seem booking TPs is pretty much dead. System is converting.

That was my experience.

So are the Travel Packages dead?

I transferred SPG points to my wife July 23rd, and they didn't post until August 1st. So now I have enough to book a 270K Cat 1-5 travel package but don't think I can now at that rate.