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Aeroplan Offers Up To 5000 Bonus Miles on Hotel Point Transfers

By Darren MakMon, 08/22/2011 - 05:06

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Screen Shot 2011-08-22 at 11.37.08 AMAeroplan is once again running a points transfer promotion from many of the popular hotel loyalty programs, providing up to 5000 bonus miles. When transferring enough hotel points to receive 5000 Aeroplan miles you will receive a 1000 mile bonus. A transfer equalling 10000 Aeroplan miles, you will receive 2000 bonus miles. Transfer 25000 miles or more, and receive a 5000 mile bonus.

Available hotel programs to transfer from and their conversion rates, cover most of the major popular loyalty programs, including:

- Starwood Preferred Guest (1:1)
- Best Western Rewards (5:1)
- Marriott Rewards (10000:2000)
- Hilton Honours (10000:1000)
- Priority Club Rewards (10000:2000)
- Accor A|Club (up to 2:1)
- Club Carlson
- Choice Privileges (5:1)
- Coast Rewards (1:1)
- Hyatt Gold Passport (2.5:1)
- Shangri-La Golden Circle
- Wyndham Rewards (2.5:1)

Just remember, that the bonus is based on how many Aeroplan Miles your transfer will net, not the number of hotel points you have to transfer. And why would you do this? The only time I would make a conversion is if I absolutely needed the miles for an Aeroplan Reward Redemption, or had some points in a hotel program that were going to expire, or didn't have enough for a redemption.

Starwood Offers Points at 20% Off

By Darren MakFri, 11/13/2009 - 18:41

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Starpoints I have never really understood why anyone would buy points in a loyalty program, as they are always very, very expensive. But I guess if you needed just a few more points for an award, it might make sense if you want to redeem that reward right away, or if you don't plan on earning points in that program the traditional way for a while.

So for those of you needing a few more SPG points to top-up your Starwood, SPG is currently offering Starpoints at a 20% discount for a limited time.

500 Starpoints is the minimum you can buy, at a cost of $14 USD instead of the usual $17.50, with a maximum of 20,000 for $560. You can theoretically redeem 7000 points at a Category 3 hotel for $196, or 12000 points at a Category 5 hotel for $336. This could possibly be a decent price for points at hotels which are chronically priced high, but likely you will be able to get a better rate just paying cash.

You can also take care of this offer to gift points to someone else, which I guess makes this an OK promotion if you were going to provide the points to someone as an incentive or something of the sort, but I am not sure how useful gifting perhaps 1000 points would be... but then again, that might be why I am not in charge of marketing for a hotel loyalty program.

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