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Bilt Rewards has added Marriott Bonvoy to their list of transfer partners adding even more opportunities to redeem what continue to be some of the most valuable points you can earn. Of course you should have full disclosure, I am an investor and advisor to the program, but Bilt is the single program that offers transfers now to AA, United, IHG, Hilton, and now Marriott Bonvoy. Even more, they consistently have status based transfer bonuses that range from 75% to 150% – that is just unreal.
In regards to the new Marriott Partnership, Bilt is offering a 5k bonus for every 20k Bilt Rewards that are transferred to Marriott Bonvoy
- 20k Bilt Rewards = 25k Marriott Bonvoy
This may look familiar to those of you who were Starwood loyalists ( they used to offer 20k Starwood points = 25k Airlines miles ), and the Marriott who offer, for most airlines, a 5k bonus when you transfer 60k Marriott Bonvoy to airliens ( 60k Marriott Bonvoy = 25k Airline Miles ).
Bilt Rewards has 14 partners ( 11 airlines and 3 hotels )
- Airlines
- American Airlines Aadvantage
- Aer Lingus Aer Club
- Aeroplan
- British Airways
- Emirates Skywards
- FlyingBlue ( KLM + Air France )
- Hawaiian Airlines
- Iberia Plus
- Turkish Miles and Smiles
- United MileagePlus
- Virgin Red
- Hotels
- IHG One Rewards
- Marriott Bonvoy
- World of Hyatt
Zach, will you transfer?
No. It’s highly doubtful seeing as tho I believe Bilt Rewards are easily worth 2 cents a pop, probably more when you factor in the constant transfer bonuses, and Marriott are arguably worth 7/10c to 8/10c a point. You can often buy them for this amount, and if you extract 1 penny per point you’re doing pretty good with Marriott points. Even with the 20k to 25k ratio, in most situations it doesn’t make sense to me.
The exceptions would be redemptions like the St Regis Maldives, JW Marriott Masai Mara for safari, Al Maha outside of Dubai for safari, or hotels in those category especially if Bilt decided to do an insane transfer bonus. In that situation, yes, I think you could argue a transfer has value, but otherwise, for me personally, I don’t think I’ll transfer Bilt to Marriott very often.
Recap
When I partnered with Bilt Rewards nearly two years ago I felt they were trying to do something truly different and value oriented to their members. Adding Marriott, creates more redemptions options for their members whether I would make the transfer or not.
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel℠
- 3x on dining, including eligible delivery services for takeout & dining out
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- $50 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit via Chase Travel℠
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 2x on all other travel
- 10% Anniversary Bonus
- Every year you keep the card, your total spend will yield a 10% points bonus. If you spend $10k in a year, you’ll get 1k bonus points
- Chase Sapphire Preferred continues to redeem at 1.25c in the Chase Travel℠ and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver ( primary ), purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in Chase Travel℠ for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Get complimentary access to DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees and lower service fees for a minimum of one year when you activate by December 31, 2027.
- $95 Annual Fee
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.
Main Cast:
Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.
Supporting Cast:
Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on.
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® is exceptional starter card and offers transferrable Ultimate Rewards, and pairs well with other Chase cards.
If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex® and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Ink Business Cash® , Ink Business Unlimited® you can combine the points into Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners
Annual fee is quite low at $95 a year + you get a 10% anniversary bonus on points + $50 hotel credit in Chase travel.
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