SPG’s Nights and Flights deal, you get a discount on a 5 night Category 3 or 4 hotel award stay combined with the transfer bonus to an airline partner (at the 1:1 transfer rate only).
The deal is not available for Category 1-2 or 5-7 stays.
At the end of the day, the deal is:
- A 5 night stay in a Standard Room at a Category 3 hotel and 50,000 airline miles for the cost of 60,000 Starpoints (saving 8,000 Starpoints)
- A 5 night stay in a Standard Room at a Category 4 hotel and 50,000 airline miles for the cost of 70,000 Starpoints (saving 10,000 Starpoints)
With this deal, you could fly down to Orlando and stay at the Category 4 Walt Disney World Swan or Dolphin for 5 nights. Sweet!
Book a Nights and Flights award deal over the phone only (1-888-625-4988).
The SPG Nights & Flights option is also worth mentioning. For Category 3 and 4 hotels, you can redeem 60,000 or 70,000 points (respectively) to get 5 free nights and 50,000 airline miles from your choice of 31 airline transfer partners. That’s a pretty smashing deal.
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First, the major downside: Nights & Flights is only available on Category 3 and Category 4 properties, so you can’t use it on redemptions at either the very high end or low end properties within Starwood (remember, though, you can just redeem points for free nights, and for the airfare portion, transfer Starwood points to your airline program of choice).
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These awards seem to be based on domestic trips and double occupancy since the airline miles portion of the award is 50,000 miles – enough for two standard domestic roundtrip award tickets.
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Unlike free-night and Cash & Points redemptions, you can’t book Nights & Flights online – you have to call into SPG Customer Care, and Starwood won’t book the flight portion of your award for you – you have to find the availability and make the redemption yourself on the airline once your points transfer.
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Worth It?
ReplyDeleteAs always, whether Starwood’s Nights & Flights redemption is worth it really depends on your particular needs. If you’re looking for a five-night getaway at a mid-tier property and the airline awards you need to get there are plentiful and easy to book, you might as well save the extra 8,000 or 10,000 points.
Personally, I find I get a lot more value out of either free-night or Cash & Points redemptions with Starwood, and I like to have the flexibility of transferring points to miles (which I’ll cover in a future post) on my own timeframe for the exact awards I want. That’s just me, though – I have trouble committing to travel plans!
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