I am a basic member and have around 23,000 points of which 6000 or so will expire next month. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to use them? I called SAS and I gather there are not enough for any flight. I would prefer to use them for an alternative to a flight anyway. I also want to run down my points and join the BMI or Lufthansa schemes (I joined SAS many years ago when I used to fly to Norway every week). I would welcome any suggestions.

Tricky one...
There are a few Eurobonus promotions you might want to check, some of them have been mentioned here.

If you have an upcoming trip with SAS in Economy Flex you can use 10000 points to upgrade to business class, or if you will do an intercontinental trip with SAS in economy you upgrade with 10000 points to Economy Flex.

An intra-European award flight is 30000 points so that won't work.
However an intra-Scandinavian award trip is only 12000 points and as a basic member, when booking an award trip you can at the same time use points for a hotel stay which costs 10000 points per night Friday-Sunday.
So for 10000 + 12000 = 22000 points you could get a free trip anywhere in Scandinavia with a hotel stay at the destination during a weekend.

Fly to Longyearbyen from somewhere in Scandinavia and stay at Radisson SAS Polar Hotel may be the best vaule per points.

You can fly to Copenhagen for only 20 000 points, so I think that would be quite good value for your points!
And if you're close to MAN, you can fly from there to CPH for only 10 000 points in Y and 15 000 in C. Then you can book a hotel for 10 000 if on a weekend... Quite a nice little trip! But you'll have to travel soon! The offer only lasts until 15FEB.

This would be a very good deal indeed, but have you ever managed to book an award flight to Logyearbyen? It seems to me that they are *always* sold out or not available, apart from winter months, when it's completely dark up there.

I successed to get 2 award seats between ARN-LYR and 3 nights(Fri-Sun) stay at Radisson SAS Polar Hotel last summer.
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Radisson SAS Polar SpitzbergenLongyearbyen
Anv�nda po�ng -30 000

Stockholm - Longyearbyen
Anv�nda po�ng -24 000
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Total 54000 points.
It was a very very good deal. ^

Just out of curiosity, how did that work out?
I thought it cost 10000 points Friday-Sunday and 20000 points the other days of the week (Sunday-Friday).
For three (I assume consecutive) nights that must mean at least one night should be considered as a weekday night which cost 20000 points, i.e. for three nights 20000+10000+10000=40000 points

They counted Sunday night(between Sun-Mon) as "weekend" stay too.
The text I wrote above is copy&paste from my online statement.

I have been to Longyearbyen twice on award tickets. Both occassions was back in the days when SK and BU competed on the route. Never managed to book an award stay at the Polar Radisson. But there are plenty of nice ways to spend the night apart from the Radisson. I would say Radisson Polar is really a booring hotel (rooms looks like a hospital from the seventies). Find one of those authentic places run by locals instead. And maybe go for dinner at the Radisson.

BTW I think Radisson always count sunday night as weekend pointwise??? Last summer I stayed three nights at the Radisson SAS Airth Castle outside of Edinburgh, totaled 30000 EB points (Fri-Mon).

Yes sunday night always counts as a weekend and therefor always cost 10.000 points.

Oh sorry, my mistake.
Checked the webpage again and you're right.
I understood it like "Friday-Sunday 10000 points/night" meant check-in Friday check-out Sunday, i.e. 2 nights, I guess it could be understood like that as well.

Thanks for all the suggestions.