1p Avios or Virgin miles with a BT phone from Tesco

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• Andrew* says:

  24 Apr24 April 19:30

  oos

• N says:

  24 Apr24 April 19:32

  “request stock alert” at 1929

• Grimz says:

  24 Apr24 April 19:33

  None available at 7.29pm!

• Raj Singh says:

  24 Apr24 April 19:38

  O/T – Marriott Rewards Travel Package
  Hi All

  I haven’t used a Marriott travel certificate before and have a quick question.
  The hotel that I’m looking to reserve, Category 9, requires 270,000 points for a seven night stay. However, when I looked at the travel packages table it states that I would need to redeem 390,000 points in order to gain a seven night stay plus 120,000 BA miles. I don’t understand what the point is of redeeming 390,000 points for the package instead of 270,000 just for the hotel stay. My points would be converted from SPG points obtained from Amex membership rewards. I could convert the additional 120,000 required points directly to BA, so why go through Marriott.

  Regards
  Raj

  • Matthew says:

    24 Apr24 April 20:18

    The maths is slightly skewed because you are converting Amex MR to SPG which means they get halved but it still works out better. It’s much more worthwhile if you are using SPG points earned directly from the credit card or hotel stays. Here are some sums for you:-

    270,000 Marriott points = 90,000 SPG
    390,000 Marriott points = 130,000 SPG
    120,000 Marriott points = 40,000 SPG

    So say you have 300,000 AMEX MR points and convert 180,000 of them into 90,000 SPG to make 270,000 Marriott points. That sorts your hotel out and the remaining 120,000 are converted direct from AMEX MR to BA. You now have 0 left in Amex.

    To do the Marriott travel package for your hotel and 120,000 BA miles, you need 260,000 Amex MR points converted into 130,000 SPG which converts to 390,000 Marriott points. So you get the same outcome but still have 40,000 Amex MR left in your account.

    Hope that makes sense!

    • Raj Singh says:

      24 Apr24 April 20:21

      Thankyou very much for the explanation; all clear now.

      • Yuff says:

        25 Apr25 April 06:04

        I believe you don’t need the avios points, for the stay, the 390k Marriott points are what the package costs, the 120k avios is what you receive as a bonus for booking the travel package 😉

  • TGLoyalty says:

    24 Apr24 April 22:45

    Short answer

    120k Marriot = 40k SPG = 80k MR so you have gained 40k Avios vs converting 80k MR directly into Avios

• Lewis Watson says:

  24 Apr24 April 19:49

  Sold out in less than 20 min

• James says:

  24 Apr24 April 19:50

  Says 11 points now

• Steve says:

  24 Apr24 April 20:25

  Direct cancelled my orders last time a few hours later and I wasn’t bulk buying.

• goran says:

  24 Apr24 April 20:58

  phone is available again , so hurry up 🙂

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