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Aeroplan has announced a promotion where you'll receive a 30% bonus miles when transferring hotel points to Aeroplan through December 11, 2017. Interestingly this is the third time in 6 months that Aeroplan has run a promotion on hotel point transfers. Normally it isn't recommended to transfer hotel points to miles due to unfavorable transfer ratios, and Aeroplan has made a change to their terms and conditions that has drastically reduced the potential value you can leverage from the promotion.
Key Terms
- Promotion is valid through 23:59 EDT December 11, 2017
- Earn 30% bonus on hotel points transferred
- Allow 4-6 weeks from the end of the promo for the bonus miles to credit to your account
- The promotion is not valid for Marriott Hotel + Air packages
- Hotels participating in the promotion are as follows:
Maximizing The Promotion
It is disappointing that Aeroplan removed the Marriott Hotel + Air from the promotion since the March and July promos allowed the bonus on this redemption, and it did provide a great value. As it stands there is not much value in the promotion; if you hold Starpoints or Marriott Rewards, you are better off ignoring the promotion completely and just booking a standard Marriott Hotel + Air package.
Using the promotion transferring 90,000 Starpoints would give you 143,000 Aeroplan miles. Transferring 270,000 Marriott points would give you 70,200 Aeroplan miles.
On the other hand, transferring the 90,000 Starpoints to Marriott at a ratio of 1:3 would give you 270,000 Marriott points. If you instead ignore the promotion completely and use a standard Marriott Hotel + Air package you would receive 7 nights in a category 1-5 hotel, plus 120,000 Aeroplan miles, which is a better value than a direct transfer with the promotion.
Overall
While normally transferring hotel points to miles is not recommended, if you do have some upcoming travel plans and are a few Aeroplan miles short, you might want to consider taking advantage of the promotion. However, using the Marriott Hotel + Air package, you'll receive a better value versus taking advantage of the promotion.
So if you want to take advantage of some of Aeroplan’s redemption sweet spots, you are better off you a Marriott Hotel + Air package.
Source: One Mile At A Time
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I am going to keep my Marriott and SPG points.
Agreed, they’re so flexible and useful a 30% bonus doesn’t motivate me to convert to Aeroplan.
The bonus should be higher considering the points will be near useless when they sunset the program in 3 years! Terrible value.
Why would you hold on to miles for 3 years!? Earn and burn! Miles are a poor long-term investment.
I really can’t see using hotel points, that are easy to redeem, to exchange for Aeroplan points, which are very difficult to redeem. As always, if you have a specific purpose, it might be good but otherwise, I’d keep as few Aeroplan points as possible. They may become even more difficult to use when Air Canada parts ways with Aeroplan.
Anything to do with Aeroplan is usually lukewarm at best.
It might be worthwhile if you had an immediate redemption in mind, but I would be wary of speculative conversion, particularly with Air Canada ending their relationship in a few years.
Thank you for the heads up on this one. I will not be participating.
I recall reading on here that the AeroPlan program is changing?
Yes, but still several years down the road: https://awardwallet.com/blog/air-canada-split-aeroplan-operate-program/
Substantially more than changing I’d say. Aeroplan are unlikely to have access to Air Canada or Star Alliance award inventory (since the new Air Canada program will have that).
I suspect it will morph into a revenue-based, variable-pricing model based on cash fares. Definitely not something you want to be saving up your miles for…
While the info in the article is solid and good advice I can’t help but notice the grammar errors. It reads as though a non native English speaker wrote this. Not the usual standard of writing. Sorry to be critical but had to bring it up. If the article writing has been outsourced, then I’d recommend getting someone else. Sorry to be so critical. Hoping it will be received as constructive criticism.
Elan, this article was written by someone that studied UK English — I’ve made a few tweaks and appreciate the feedback.
Agreed, for now I will keep my hotel points. No need for Aeroplan miles at present.
Meh. It doesn’t seem worth it at all
Aeroplan has not been great with redemptions offered lately unless you use their dynamic pricing which usually sucks
Not an interesting enough offer, unfortunately.
Find my Starwood Preferred Guest points are more valuable than Aeroplan. Too many surcharges, and not very good availability (unless you want to book a mulit-connection flight).
Not going to take advantage of this, but thanks for the information.
Nice bonus, but not quite compelling enough for a speculative transfer.
Isn’t it more worth it to keep it on the hotel points? Seems a bit lackluster
It all depends on your goals.
I won’t use this but I hope it benefits someone else!
i use aeroplan for my asia trips. thank you for offer!
Marriott 7 day hotel plus airline miles is the way to go.
The fact that Marriott travel packages are excluded is a big let down…
I agree…this is one of the biggest let down. other might follow the same
Nice transfer bonus, too bad Marriott Hotel + Air packages don’t count for the bonus.
Good offer. Just wish it was extended beyond 12/11