What is the Best Bonvoy Points Trip You Have Done?

[JoeZuke]

When I turned 270,000 Marriott points into an old category 6 five night travel cert (stayed at Springhill suites Springdale -Zion National Park-wonderful) got 110,000 Southwest points plus almost two years of a Southwest Companion pass which saved me $1800 on its own, apart from the points. Thanks to my very knowledgeable friends at TUG! Love TUG, Marriott and Southwest!

That is interesting. How did you get the Companion pass with the Travel Package miles part? Does Southwest automatically give you this or did you have to do something special?

 

[aandmrun]

Back in the day, we did the 7 night with airline included at the London Marriott hotels. It was a great deal. Now we tend to do the 5 night stays at Residence Inns in major cities. If you book 5 nights you only use points for 4 (4 nights plus one free night). This has given us spacious accommodations in New York City, Chicago, Seattle, and Nashville. We want to visit as many of the major US cities as possible and we find this is a great way to do it. We have enough time to enjoy what each city has to offer without having to rush around too much. This also allows us to stay right in the center of the cities and not have to rent a car. So far every trip has been wonderful.

 

[AlmostRetired]

My was a 440,000 point travel package back in 2000. It was for 4 Round Trip Tickets anywhere in the world , 14 night at a hotel and a 25 or 50% car rental discount at Hertz. It was my wife, my two kids (13, 11) and myself. We did a three week London, Paris, train to Madrid and drive to Toeldo, Malaga and back to Madrid. My Monarch unit got me 130K reward points every year and the 3 year exchange for points cost me three years of MF totaling less than 1500. The points funded a big piece of the trip. Soon after Marriott did away with that package and increased point usuage for everything. It was the last time I used my timeshare for points.

 

[Mr. Vker]

That is interesting. How did you get the Companion pass with the Travel Package miles part? Does Southwest automatically give you this or did you have to do something special?

Through 2015, SWA counted points transferred from hotel programs towards CP earning. Very unusual for such a great benefit. CP's counted in the year earned PLUS the following year. So, if you processed a TP in early January you would get a CP for almost two years. In early 2016, they announced a stop to that-but gave people a month to transfer and still have it count. More than fair IMHO.

 

[Luvtoride]

Our best use of a Marriott (Bonvoy) travel package was our trip to Paris last year. For a 5 night package which I think was 330,000 points for the old level 8 hotel (we booked in Aug ‘18 before the devaluation) we stayed at the Paris Marriott Champs Elysees and got 80,000 Air France Flying Blue points. I supplemented those points with points transferred from my AMEX Rewards account and we booked round trip Business Class on Air France. We had a great trip!


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