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Earn 30% more Aeroplan miles by converting your hotel program points

To the point Aeroplan offers you to convert points from different hotel loyalty programs into Aeroplan miles with a bonus of 30% by the way. Details.

Aéroplan a décidé de prolonger la promotion jusqu’au 25 septembre 2019.

Bonus on converting hotel program points to Aeroplan miles

Du 09 au 22  25 septembre 2019, vous pouvez obtenir un bonus de 30% de milles aéroplan supplémentaires en convertissant vos points de programmes hôteliers.

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30 % Aeroplan miles bonus

You can convert your hotel program points into Aeroplan miles from:

  • Marriott Bonvoy
  • Best Western Rewards
  • Radisson Rewards
  • Hilton Honors
  • IHG Rewards Club
  • Coast Hotels
  • Choice Hotels
  • The Accor Club
  • Golden Circle – Shangri La
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Conversion ratios

Here’s what you could get as Aeroplan miles with this conversion promotion:

Hotel group Ordinary conversion Conversion with Bonus of 30%
Marriott Bonvoy 30,000 points = 10,000 miles 30,000 points = 13,000 miles
Marriott Bonvoy* 60,000 points = 25,000 miles* 60,000 points = 32,500 miles*
Gold Circle 10,000 points = 10,000 miles 10,000 points – 13,000 miles
Coast Rewards 10,000 points = 10,000 miles 10,000 points = 13,000 miles
The AccorHotels Club 10,000 points = 5,000 miles 10,000 points = 6,500 miles
Best Western Rewards 10,000 points = 2,000 miles 10,000 points = 2,600 miles
Wyndham Rewards 10,000 points = 2,000 miles 10,000 points = 2,600 miles
Choice Privileges 10,000 points = 2,000 miles 10,000 points = 2,600 miles
Hilton Honors 10,000 points = 1,000 miles 10,000 points = 1,300 miles
Radisson Rewards 10,000 points = 1,500 miles 10,000 points = 1,950 miles
IHG Rewards Club 10,000 points = 1,000 miles 10,000 points = 1,300 miles

*Marriott Bonvoy offers a bonus of 15,000 points (or 5,000 miles) for every 60,000 points transferred. Thus, as part of this promotion, 60,000 points = 32,500 miles!

Radisson Rewards is currently offering an additional 50% bonus miles for a total of 80% additional bonuses.

Example of transfer from Marriott Bonvoy

Let’s take the example of converting Marriott Bonvoy points to Aeroplan miles as part of this promotion.

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If you recently obtained the Marriott Bonvoy™ American Express® Card,you normally have just over 53,000 Marriott Bonvoy points (50,000 points for the welcome bonus and 3,000 points for requested purchases of $1,500 in the 3 months).

This means that:

53,000 Marriott Bonvoy points

=

17,667 Aeroplan miles (3:1 ratio)

+30% (conversion bonus)

=

22,967 Aeroplan miles

However, it would be much wiser to convert 60,000 Marriott Bonvoy points because the Marriott Bonvoy program offers an additional 5,000 Aeroplan miles bonus for every 60,000 points converted!

thus:

60,000 Marriott Bonvoy points

=

20,000 Aeroplan miles (3:1 ratio)

+ 5,000 Aeroplan miles (bonus offered by Marriott Bonvoy)

+ 30% (conversion bonus)

=

32,500 Aeroplan miles

Example of transfer from membership rewards via Marriott Bonvoy

American Express’ membership rewards program allows you to transfer membership rewards in Aeroplan miles directly at a rate of 1:1 with these 4 cards

However, the American Express Cobalt™ Card does not allow you to transfer aeroplan miles.

The trick here is to use the Marriott Bonvoy program to convert your membership rewards accumulated on theAmerican Express Cobalt™ Card into Aeroplan miles!

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Le transfert de points-privilèges de la Carte Cobalt en milles Aéroplan via Marriott Bonvoy

So this gives:

50,000 membership rewards

=

60,000 Marriott Bonvoy points (5:6 ratio)

=

20,000 Aeroplan miles (3:1 ratio)

+ 5,000 Aeroplan miles (bonus offered by Marriott Bonvoy)

+ 30% (conversion bonus)

=

32,500 Aeroplan miles

Conclusion

We always tell you that it is best to use your points and miles within the loyalty program in which they were issued to you.

However, some promotions like this can be interesting, especially if you’re missing miles to book the airline reward of your dreams!

Come to discuss that topic in our Facebook Group!
Jean-Maximilien
Jean-Maximilien is an expert in Canada and France about Loyalty programs, Credit cards and Travel. He is the Founding President of Milesopedia.

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