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The Offer
- United are offering a 30% transfer bonus when you convert hotel points to United miles.
Our Verdict
Only transfer worth considering is Marriott. If you transfer 60,000 Marriott points you get 20,000 United miles + 10,000 bonus miles plus the 30% transfer bonus. That means you can convert 60,000 Marriott points into 36,000 United miles (you don’t get the bonus on the 10k bonus miles).
Hat tip to Award Wallet
Bonus posted today, converting 120K Bonvoy get 10K UA miles bonus.
This offer is very confusing.
The terms and conditions say “The maximum bonus miles that can be earned by a member under this promotion is 25,000” so it seems like the optimal number of Marriott points to transfer would be 83,333 because 83,333 * 0.3 = 25,000?
However, then you’d only earn “the standard offer of a 10,000 miles bonus for every 60,000 Marriott Bonvoy points transferred” for the first 60,000 points, so it seems like the optimal number of Marriott points to transfer would actually be 60,000?
No. 60k bonvoy turns to 20k united. You’ll get 30% bonus if you convert to > 40k united.
Best way to maximize the 25k bonus is 4x 60k =240K bonvoy transfers. You’ll get 4x (20k + 6k this offer + 10k bonus) = 144k United. Or 1.67:1 ratio.
United and Marriott – match made in hell.
Yes indeed. Those programs have had a race to the bottom.
May be worth updating the title as you will likely only get 36k instead of 39k based on my and multiple folks prior experience with this. They only gave the 30% bonus on the 20k and not the bonus 10k.
Ok, fixed.
worthless to worthless lol
Over 40K miles earned — 30% bonus miles. I think you need to convert 120K Marriott points to get the 30% bonus
Nope, converting 120K Marriott only get you 10000 miles bonus. It is 25%. 40K+ (notice the plus) get you 30% bonus. This is shameless
I’m tired and a little confused on this promo but it appears the miles have posted with a backdated date and they calculated the 30% based on the non-bonus amount.
I Transferred 180k Marriott to United on 10/3/23. 90k United immediately showed up (3:1 transfer + 10k bonus for every 60k transferred).
Today (1/1/24) I checked and saw another 18k posted with a back date of 11/27/23. Labeled “points to miles bonus”.
18k is 30% of 60k. 60k is the 3:1 transfer amount that came from the 180k Marriott I sent to United, excluding the 10k bonus for every 60k transferred.
So in my case I sent 180k Marriott to United and in total got 108k, which in total is a 1.67 to 1 ratio.
It looks the bonus miles are posting. BUT, instead of the 9k miles I was expecting, I only got 6k miles on 11/26. Anyone else?
Same here
Same here
This is bad – the t&c on the promotion made all of us thinking we would get 30% bonus. We should all complain on this and hopefully they can rectify this
Same here. 60k Marriott points to 36k United miles.
Moved Marriott points to United on 10/03. Bonus miles haven’t been deposited yet. Customer service said bonus miles will be credited by Jan 31, 2024
I transferred 60k marriots on 10/1, I got 10000 + 20000 UA miles on 10/2.
So far, no extra 30% bonus seen yet.