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The Offer
- United is offering a 30% transfer bonus when you convert hotel points to United miles, up to a maximum of 25,000 bonus miles. Club Carlson & Choice hotels are offering other bonuses as well:
- Club Carlson: Earn 100% more miles than usual. Normal transfer rate is 10:1, so this makes it 10:2
- Choice Hotels: earn 3,250 United miles for every 5,000 Choice Privileges points
The Fine Print
- To qualify for this offer, members must register for the promotion between October 9, 2016 and 11:59pm EST November 30, 2017 (“Promotional Period”).
- During promotion, Choice Privileges points will convert to 2,500 MileagePlus miles each transaction instead of 1,000 miles; at the conclusion of the promotion, all miles earned from Choice Privileges conversions will be multiplied by 30% (for a total of 3,250 miles for every 5,000 Choice Privileges points converted).
Our Verdict
Club Carlson still isn’t a good deal. SPG normally converts at a rate of 2:1 (compared to 1:1 with other airlines) so that is also a bad deal. The most interesting option is to get a Marriott flight + hotel package. Normally 7 nights at a category 1-5 property and 132,000 United miles would cost you 270,000 Marriott points, with this promotion you’d receive a total of 157,000 United miles (keep in mind the 25,000 mile cap on the 30% bonus). You could also redeem a smaller amount of Marriott points for less United miles to ‘maximize’ the 30% bonus but that doesn’t make a lot of sense as the packages with more miles are better value (e.g 20,000 extra Marriott points = 22,000 United miles). United also had a similar bonus last year, but it was only for 25%.
Hat tip to readers James33
