Thank you for your kind and prompt replies. I am still not sure if this is a great deal. The only reason we bought was for these star point certificates. Based on the deal they will cost .006c/starpoints. We figured the 2+ million points would allow us to travel 5 times to Europe (we are based in Western Canada) flying business class with each trip giving us 14 nights in a 4star hotel. We most likely won’t start using them until my husband retires in 4 years.
I’m not worried about that eoy ts purchase at WDW as we will utilize this and the mf’s are $400 per year. We know we will have to give it away I. 20 years but will sacrifice this in order to save on the Europe travel...if the Europe is a good deal with these certificates.
I was sold star points but someone mentioned they are Marriott points which are valued less. That is making me nervous. Thanks for any forthcoming input you can contribute.
Hi neighbour, I'm in Victoria, and have just booked out another Europe trip on points for next year, so I am uniquely qualified to tell you that you are severely overestimating what those points will get.
first, you were sold Marriott points. Starpoints ceased to exist on Aug 18. All existing balances were converted at 1:3 to Marriott points. if these were 2 million StarPoints, we'd be saying something completely different...
second, you need to look at the hotel properties you anticipate staying in and price them out, along with the Aeroplan tickets.
Each Aeroplan ticket will run you 250,000 MR to convert to 100,000 Aeroplan (3:1 plus 20% effective bonus if transferred in the right amounts). assuming 2 people for 15 nights (best use of 5th night free) and 200,000+ MR per 5 night stay at nice hotels (the top hotels are capped at 240,000 MR per 5 nights right now, but will increase to as much as 400,000 MR per 5 nights starting with bookings made sometime in 2019 as they remove the cap and introduce Category 8 and peak pricing), you're easily up to 1,100,000+ MR per trip, so i'm not sure where you are getting 5 trips from
I think you'll be lucky to get 2x 2week trips with the 2 million MR
our trip is 26 nights for 1 million MR, plus the business class Aeroplan tickets at the equivalent of 250,000 MR each...