Originally Posted by hhoope01 (Post 21798002)

I guess I'm missing something here.

I think your point is that with a TP award you are "essentially" converting 50K points into 60K miles. Correct? If so, note that a straight transfer of points to miles would normally require 140K MR points to get 50K miles (or 60K with the bonus.) So the TP award provides a fairly nice savings considering you are getting both the hotel award and the miles.

Also, you picked the lowest miles option for a TP award. The big benefit of this award is getting the airline miles at a 1-to-1 points-to-miles ratio. Thus the biggest benefit would be seen when converting 270K points into 120K miles (145K with the 25K bonus.)

If you tried to do a straight points to miles convertion, it would take about 350K MR points to get that same 120K miles. And don't forget that a straight convertion does NOT includes any hotel award certs. So the top end TP award saves 80K points PLUS throws in a nice 7 night hotel award.

Originally Posted by hhoope01 (Post 21798002)

I guess I'm missing something here.

I think your point is that with a TP award you are "essentially" converting 50K points into 60K miles. Correct? If so, note that
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saves 80K points PLUS throws in a nice 7 night hotel award.

Originally Posted by johnep1 (Post 21933516)

All -

I booked a travel package last April for travel in April 2014. Is it possible to transfer the hotel portion of the package to someone else?

Thank you.

Originally Posted by BKKLEE (Post 21933579)

unless you're seeking speculative answers, IMO the way to get the correct answer to this question is to ask MR as what others did, or did not, do previously does not necesarily mean it can still be done today...........it ONLY takes a phone call...........less time then posting this question here...

BTW, from previous posts, the hotel portion of the pkg has been known to be extendable for an additional year (at least one poster says done twice - ie. 2 yrs)......., but then again, this takes the effort of using the phone......

Originally Posted by johnep1 (Post 21933622)

Thank you for the reply. I am used to USAir, where phone agents don't always have the right information, so I try to find the answer before I call.

Originally Posted by tomsam (Post 20997989)

I only recently discovered that I could make a reservation for someone else using my points.
Yesterday I did this as part of a travel package - booked a 7-night cat 4 reservation for my wife + got 120000 United mileageplus miles in MY account for 270,000 MR points ^

Originally Posted by zakami (Post 22048339)

Can I make a reservation for someone else with the miles also going into their account?

Originally Posted by zakami (Post 22048339)

Can I make a reservation for someone else with the miles also going into their account?

Originally Posted by travelsg (Post 22409285)

That's a decent offer. Wish AS is offering this as well... ;)