Transfer Hotel Points To Avianca Lifemiles And Get A 25% Transfer Bonus
Miles transferred from hotel programs to Avianca Lifemiles from 4/2-5/6 will earn a 25% bonus.
The bonus stacks with Starwood’s standard 25% bonus, so increments of 20K Starpoints will transfer to 31,250 Lifemiles.
90K Starpoints also can transfer into 270K Marriott points which can normally be transferred into 85K Lifemiles plus 7 nights in a Marriott hotel. With this bonus it would transfer into 106,250 Lifemiles plus 7 nights in a Marriott hotel. Read more about this option in this post.
Lifemiles has a good Star Alliance award chart with no fuel surcharges. They even have an excellent award chart for intra-USA awards. For example a flight within a zone as defined in their Star Alliance chart like NYC-Cleveland, Houston-Fort Lauderdale, or Denver-Los Angeles is just 7.5K miles in coach or 15K miles in business class each way. There is a $25 award redemption fee, but there are no close-in fees.
However Lifemiles is also known for changing award charts without warning, having a useless and incompetent call center, blocking some Lufthansa First Class awards, and they just added a new requirement that you earn or purchase miles every 12 months to keep your miles alive. In other words, I wouldn’t speculatively transfer points unless you have a redemption in mind.
Will you transfer hotel points to Lifemiles?
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Marriott conversion is wrong. It’s capped at 30k
There is no cap on the bonus from Lifemiles. I think that’s a very poor reading of the terms from some other bloggers.
In fact the terms specify that “The minimum and maximum quantity of points/miles to transfer or convert to LifeMiles depends on the policies of each partner.” In other words, they are the limits places by the hotels, not Lifemiles limits.
The “maximum” listed for the programs is just referring to the daily transfer cap for normal mileage transfers without traval packages. In other words SPG allows a max daily transfer of 79,999 Starpoints, which would convert into 94,999 Lifemiles before a bonus. But I don’t see anything that indicates the bonus is limited.
The regular Marriott transfer chart goes up to a max of 140K, hence the max 140K there.
Everything I’m reading indicates that the minimums/maximums are based on the hotel, not a limit from Lifemiles.
Can you transfer Hilton honors to Avianca?
Avianca also charges $25 per reward redemption.
Could you transfer Lifemiles back to SPG? Hoping to transfer IHG->Lifemiles->SPG
No
How long does it take to transfer SPG into Avianca? 1 day or 7-10?