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Super Quick head’s up to all of you honeymooning, uber luxury hunting, gimme a villa in French Polynesia or death crowd – the Conrad Hilton Bora Bora has very good, and highly unusual award availability from January through March of 2024. One thing to keep in mind, almost all of the rooms do not have a view of the mountain, which may or may not be a big deal, but worth noting, and only some are overwater. Hattip to Loyalty Lobby for spotting this, let’s take a look!
The Conrad Bora Bora base room isn’t over water
Most of the pictures you’ll see look like the resort is entirely over water…it’s not. The base room is a lagoon view suite which faces the lagoon but is on the island, a part of a building, and not overwater. These now start at 120k points per night or about $1250 per night.
5 nights would cost you 480k points…
Conrad Bora Bora Award Availability using Hilton Points
Here is a look at several months of space. The very best being in January
How do I find award space at a Hilton Property?
When you enter your location information select these two options: Flexible dates and Use points… this will populate the calendar you see above
Zach, I don’t have any Hilton Points
- You can transfer Amex to Hilton ( although it’s typically not a great deal )
- You can buy them
Transfer Amex to Hilton 1 to 2 ( sometimes there is a bonus that is 1 to 3 )
You can read this article on how to buy them, but as long as you have Hilton Silver status…you get a 5th night free. Currently, Hilton isn’t offering a promo, but when they do, you can expect to buy them for 1/2 a penny
The Amex Hilton Aspire
Hand’s down the best hotel credit card in the market comes with an annual night free each year. You could use it here for a 120k redemption at $1250 value. That’s amazing, as well as the fact that it comes with a $250 hilton resort credit…which you could also use here. This could equate to 6 nights for 480k Hilton Points + $250 credit. Not too shabby
Hilton Honors Aspire Credit card from American Express
Diamond status, annual night anywhere in the world, $250 Hilton resort credit, $250 airline incidental credit, Priority Pass select… this is one bad mamma jamma of a card
Welcome Offer
150k Hilton Honors after $4k spend in 3 months
Annual Fee
$450 rates and fees
Points Earned
Hilton Honors
This is hands down the best hotel card available.
Not only do you get top tier Hilton Diamond status, but you get an free night certificate that you can use anywhere in the world, $250 Hilton Resort credit, $250 airline incidental credit, the list goes on.
If you’re at all thinking of staying at International Hilton properties, get this card ahead of time to enjoy the executive lounge access and free breakfast that comes along with Diamond Status.
This is a card we’ve had since it debuted and we get a lot from the annual night cert and top tier status to recoup the $450 annual fee.
- Free Annual weekend night on your account anniversary
- Diamond status, top tier, as long as you maintain the card
- $250 resort credit ( not good on prepaid rates)
- $250 annual airline incidental credit
- Priority Pass select
- 14x points at Hilton Hotels
- 7x points US restaurants, airfare booked directly with the airline/Amex travel, select car rental agencies
- $450 rates and fees
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists what the highest offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
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.
Overall
I’m seriously thinking about this as a fun January trip to Bora Bora…now I just need to find award space for flights!
Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
The Chase Sapphire Preferred is a great starter card that earns Premium Ultimate Rewards that can be transferred into over a dozen partners many of which are US based.
Welcome Offer
60k Points after $4k spend in 3 months
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
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.
- 3x on dining
- including eligible delivery services for takeout
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Ultimate Rewards – Chase Travel Portal
- $50 Annual Credit on hotel stays purchased via Ultimate Rewards/Chase Travel
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 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 Portal and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including primary rental car insurance, purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 13 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in the Chase Travel center for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Primary rental car coverage is my favorite
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.
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