United has brought back their bonus for converting hotel points to MileagePlus miles. This time it is a tiered bonus that offers anywhere from 20% to 30% bonus miles depending on the total amount of hotel points you transfer over.
In most cases the only transfer makes sense is converting Marriott Bonvoy points since they transfer at a 3 to 1 ratio. You’ll also want to transfer 60,000 point batches to ensure you get the 10,000 bonus miles from Marriott. For example, if you do transfer 60,000 Bonvoy Points to MileagePlus Miles you would end up with 30,000 miles (20,000 miles from the 3:1 ratio plus the 10,000 bonus miles) and a 25% bonus. Transfer more to get to 40,000 miles and you’ll get 30% bonus miles.
In past years they would award 30% on all transfers but as you can see this year the 30% only kicks in at 40,000 miles, which is conveniently higher (for United) than that 30,000 miles you get for transferring 60,000 Bonvoy points.
All other hotel programs have pretty terrible conversion ratios however if you have orphaned points in those programs that you know you’ll never use, by all means convert them over so you can get some sort of value from them.
The up to 30% Bonus:
Receive up 30% bonus MileagePlus Miles when you convert any hotel program partner points into United MileagePlus Miles. Max. bonus of 25,000 miles. Valid until Oct 31, 24. Click here for more details & to register for this offer. (Registration is required)
