The Offer
- American Airlines is offering a 25% transfer bonus when you transfer hotel points to American Airlines AAdvantage Miles. You do need to register to receive these bonus miles, just transfer as normal. Below are the hotel programs you can transfer from and their standard rates (remember to add the 25% bonus to this)
- Best Western: 5,000 points = 1,000 miles
- Club Carlson: 2,000 points = 200 miles
- Choice hotels: 5,000 points = 1,000 miles
- Hilton: 10,000 points = 1,500 miles
- Hyatt: 5,000 points = 2,000 miles
- IHG: 10,000 points = 2,000 miles
- Marriott: 10,000 points = 2,000 miles
- SPG: 2,500 points = 2,500 miles (you also receive an additional 5,000 miles when you transfer 20,000 or more points)
- Wyndham: 6,000 points = 1,200 miles
The Fine Print
- From April 15, 2018 at 12:01 a.m. Central Time through May 31, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. Central Time (“the Promotion Period”), AAdvantage® members must preregister at [website] and opt in to receive marketing communications for the opportunity to receive bonus American Airlines AAdvantage® miles (“Offer”).
- To qualify for this AAdvantage® 25% bonus mile offer, member must initiate the AAdvantage® mileage conversions with participating eligible AAdvantage® program hotel participants (“Hotel Partner(s)”) during the Promotion Period, must provide their AAdvantage® number, and must be in good standing in the AAdvantage® program.
- Members can convert multiple times with multiple Hotel Partners to earn bonus points. Conversions for hotel and air packages from Hotel Partners are not included for this offer. This offer is non-transferable and cannot be combined with any other offers. Conversions that take place before a member is registered for the offer will not count toward the offer.
- Bonus miles will be posted by American Airlines to the qualifying AAdvantage® member’s account within 7 business days after the initial conversion activity has been posted by the participating Hotel Partner. Bonus miles earned in this promotion do not count toward elite status qualification. If a Hotel Partner reverses an award of miles pursuant to the terms and conditions applicable for transacting with that Hotel Partner, American Airlines reserves the right to adjust the bonus miles awarded to the member under this Offer.
Our Verdict
Pretty sure Marriott flight + hotel packages are excluded, because they specifically mention them when they are included. Only one that might be worth really considering is SPG. If you transfer 20,000 SPG points normally you’d get 25,000 American Airline miles. With this promotion you’d get an extra 25% (including the 5,000 bonus miles) for a total of 31,250 miles. Personally I find SPG points much more valuable than American Airline miles, let’s see if that holds true in the future as well.
Hat tip to reader Anon
