United is Offering a 30% Bonus on Transferred Hotel Points
United Airlines is running a promotion that will earn you extra miles when you transfer hotel points. Let’s take a look at the details and if it’s worth it.
The Offer
For a limited time, your points-to-miles conversions can earn you a special bonus. Exchange hotel points for award miles and earn 30 percent bonus award miles, up to 25,000 miles.
Bonus award miles are yours in three easy steps:
- Register for this special offer.
- Convert hotel points into United MileagePlus miles by November 30, 2018.
- Earn 30% bonus miles on all points-to-miles transfers, up to 25,000 miles.
Key Terms
- To qualify for this offer, members must register for the promotion between October 9, 2018 and 11:59pm EST November 30, 2018
- A member must earn award miles as a result of one or more points to miles conversion transactions from any combination of MileagePlus hotel partner programs that offer a points to miles transfer program
- At the conclusion of the promotion, all miles earned by each member from Qualifying Activity will be multiplied by 30% to determine the eligible bonus up to a maximum of 25,000 Bonus Miles.
- Bonus Miles will be credited into the member’s account on or before January 30, 2019.
- This offer is not combinable with other MileagePlus offers.
- Bonus award miles, award miles and any other miles earned through non-flight activity do not count toward qualification for Premier status unless expressly stated otherwise.
- The accumulation of mileage or Premier status or any other status does not entitle members to any vested rights with respect to the MileagePlus Program.
Conclusion
Transferring hotel points to United miles will not make sense for most programs. Transfer rates are terrible for most options. Marriott is the only one that could make sense. It has a transfer rate of 3:1.1 and on top of that you always get a 15,000 points bonus when you transfer at least 60,000 Marriott points. And that’s before this 30% bonus promotion from United. With all that stacked together, you would receive 35,750 United miles if you transfer 60,000 Marriott points.
It’s possible to make this transfer even better with Marriott’s travel packages. They’re not supposed to work based on Marriott’s new terms, but United’s website and the promotion page doesn’t have any wording against it. So it’s up to you if you want to take the gamble. If you have any recent data points, please let us know.
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