What to do with MR points?

[UpperNwGuy]

I transfered all of my MR points over to Jet Blue's frequent flyer program and have been using them for repeat award flights from DCA to CHS to visit my 95-year-old father.  It may not have been the best value of all possible redemptions, but it worked well for me.  As a general rule, I never redeem any kind of points (MR, UR, or TYP) for flights or hotels on the financial institutions' travel portals.  I always transfer them to airline frequent flyer programs:  MR to Jet Blue, UR to United, and TYP to Air France.  If I lived near or often visited a Delta hub city, I would transfer MR to Delta.

[mongstradamus]

I have actually been thinking what I want to do with my points . I am probably going to try and save up to transfer to Ana to fly business class to Far East in 2020 probably. 

[BronzeTrader]

One question.  Can you transfer MR points to family member's transfer partners' account?  I have MR points in 3 family members and I really like to pool the MR points together.  I know some site, like SPG if I remember correctly, you can transfer points later among family members.

[Anonymous]

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@BronzeTrader wrote:

One question.  Can you transfer MR points to family member's transfer partners' account?  I have MR points in 3 family members and I really like to pool the MR points together.  I know some site, like SPG if I remember correctly, you can transfer points later among family members.

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You can only transfer points to another person's airline or hotel rewards program and in order to do so, they must be an authorized user on one of your Amex cards.  There is no way to directly transfer MR points to another person's Rewards account.

[K-in-Boston]

Yeah an issue we ran into was we couldn't even transfer MR points from my wife's ED to our primary account even though she is an AU on 4 of my Amex cards and I am an AU on hers. We had to transfer to SPG then to my SPG account.

[wasCB14]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I transferred them to British Airways with the 40 percent bonus and used them to book a hotel.  Worked out to be 1.1 cent per MR.  

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I'm not aware of any way to get a good value on hotels with MRs. They are really meant for flights.

Some people can get like 5 cpp from SPG...but they are likely to be earning Starpoints directly.

[K-in-Boston]

Yes, I'm getting 5-6 cents for SPG via Marriott. The bulk of my SPG points are from my SPG card but since I'm all-in I'm essentially getting about 2 cents for MRs and URs.

[Anonymous]

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@wasCB14 wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:

I transferred them to British Airways with the 40 percent bonus and used them to book a hotel.  Worked out to be 1.1 cent per MR.  

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I'm not aware of any way to get a good value on hotels with MRs. They are really meant for flights.

Some people can get like 5 cpp from SPG...but they are likely to be earning Starpoints directly.

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Well all the airlines have cards and I have ton of airline miles and also will get 200 dollars in airline gift cards from PRG.  Which only 20 dollars has been used for tax on award flights.  So better to use MR points for  my hotel.  Much better deal to transfer them to BA as I got 550 dollars from my 50000 MR points than if I booked with Amex directly and would have gotten 350 dollars of hotel usage.  

[Anonymous]

American Airlines devalued their point system pretty significantly I hear. Sister-in-law is not happy about it at all since she signed up not that long ago with one of their promos.

[Jaylima91]

Thanks guys for all the suggestions. I’m trying to find the best promo for my points to fly to Europe. I heard British Airways has a pretty good transfer promo going on.