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Why I purchased 50,000 Marriott Rewards Points (Yet Again)?

by John Ollila
March 31, 2016
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Marriott Rewards members can purchase up to 50,000 points every calendar year from Points.com that handles the sale.

Marriott Rewards United Airlines MileagePlus Bonus Purchased Again

Purchased points cost $625 for 50,000 and I cannot remember an instance when they would have been on sale (unlike with most of airline and hotel related points).

You can access Marriott’s web page for buying points here.

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So, the price of a point purchased from Marriott is ($625/50,000) 1.25 US cents each.

I have advocated that people should use their Marriott Rewards points towards issuing Travel Packages (read more here) that come with set number of airlines miles + one week at Marriott hotel.

There are several different options for the number of airline miles + Marriott Rewards award categories.

I have always issued the Travel Package at the 270,000 Marriott Rewards points that comes with 120,000 airlines miles + one week at category 1 – 5 hotels.

Due to the RewardsPlus partnership between Marriott and United (read more here), you can earn 10% conversion bonus from Marriott making the number of deposited miles 132,000 (120,000 * 1.1).

In top of that, United Airlines is currently offering an additional 25% bonus (read more here) for conversions made from Marriott Rewards that ends today (maxed at 25,000 bonus miles).

This means that redeeming 270,000 Marriott Rewards points I will receive 157,000 United Airlines miles + one week at category 1 – 5 Marriott hotels.

Conclusion

I have used all my Marriott Rewards points for issuing Travel Packages because they just make sense as long as you can commit to spending a week at Marriott hotel for each one issues. You can extend each Travel Package minimum of one time, although I have extended few more than once.

The Marriott points purchase that I made yesterday posted to my account today. Seems that they probably sweep them daily from Points to Marriott.

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