One way to use your hotel points is to transfer them to airlines for miles. United MileagePlus has a limited time offer that will give u a 30% bonus on these transfers. Normally, the exchange ratios between the hotel points and United Mileage Plus miles are not great. Here are some examples…..
Hilton Honors Points-Exchange 10,000 Hilton Honors Points for 1,000 MileagePlus miles
IHG Rewards Club-Exchange 10,000 IHG Rewards Points for 2,000 MileagePlus miles
Radisson Rewards-Exchange 2,000 Radisson Rewards Points for 200 MileagePlus miles
World of Hyatt-Exchange 10,000 World of Hyatt Points for 4,000 MileagePlus miles
You do a little better with Marriott/SPG to most airlines because you can transfer 3 Marriott/SPG points to receive 1 airline mile. Whenever you transfer 60,000 points, you get a 15,000 point bonus. So if you have 60,000 points, you can yield 25,000 miles…60,000 becomes 20,000 miles and the extra 15,000 that you get becomes 5,000 airline miles. If you transfer to United MileagePlus, you normally receive a 10% mileage bonus through the RewardsPlus program.
Regardless of which hotel program the points are coming from, there is through November 30, 2018, a 30% bonus on these transfers, up to 25,000 miles. To take advantage of this offer, you must first REGISTER and then convert your hotel points into United MileagePlus miles by November 30, 2018.
