What to do with MR points?

Jaylima91 · ‎08-26-2017

So, I have just over 108K MR points in my name, however, I don’t know what to do with them. What’s the best travel deal to use my points? I currently have the Amex Platinum.

Open to all suggestions, will consider a few, will decide on one.

Thanks!

Anonymous · ‎08-26-2017

@Jaylima91 wrote:
So, I have just over 108K MR points in my name, however, I don’t know what to do with them. What’s the best travel deal to use my points? I currently have the Amex Platinum.

Open to all suggestions, will consider a few, will decide on one.

Thanks!

No offense to your question but that is an impossible one to answer. Overall the best value for Amex points is to transfer them to airline partners and book award flights. That is something that you would need to look into yourself because there are all kinds of travel possibilities and no one but yourself knows where you want to go, where you live, how many are in your travel party, what class of airline seat, preferred airline, dates of travel, etc, etc. This is something that we can't do for you so my suggestion is to go the Amex rewards program page and start exploring.

Anonymous · ‎08-26-2017

I will GLADLY take them off your hands.

Jaylima91 · ‎08-26-2017

@irish Hmmm I guess my VAGUE question warranted a VAGUE response.

My question should’ve specified that I want to know what some of you guys are using it for currently. Any specific promos going around with MRs.

I can see where this thread is headed.

Thanks guys. I’ll log in to the Amex website and see what I find.

wasCB14 · ‎08-26-2017

@Jaylima91 wrote:
@Anonymous Hmmm I guess my VAGUE question warranted a VAGUE response.

My question should’ve specified that I want to know what some of you guys are using it for currently. Any specific promos going around with MRs.

I can see where this thread is headed.

Thanks guys. I’ll log in to the Amex website and see what I find.

There's a British Airways promo. One of their partners is American Airlines.

I fly a variety of airlines, but sometimes on short notice, and booking an AA award flight through BA lets me avoid a close-in award booking fee.

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Anonymous · ‎08-26-2017

@Jaylima91 wrote:
So, I have just over 108K MR points in my name, however, I don’t know what to do with them. What’s the best travel deal to use my points? I currently have the Amex Platinum.

Open to all suggestions, will consider a few, will decide on one.

Thanks!

This subject takes a fair amount of research. For that amount of points, it's probably worth it for you. I think Irish was pretty good with that response. There are many travel hacking blogs and youtube videos out there that I would recommend just to get a general idea. You should be able to move forward from there. You wont find a specific answer to this question here.

Anonymous · ‎08-26-2017

Here's a super broad example: https://slickdeals.net/f/10368088-air-canada-roundtrip-flight-los-angeles-to-nagoya-japan-414-travel...

$400 from LA to Japan AND back (LONG layover though). This doesnt specifically help you, but this can give you an idea of what's out there and maybe a better understanding of how to search for it.

Anonymous · ‎08-27-2017

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.

Anonymous · ‎08-27-2017

@wasCB14 wrote:
@Jaylima91 wrote:
@Anonymous Hmmm I guess my VAGUE question warranted a VAGUE response.

My question should’ve specified that I want to know what some of you guys are using it for currently. Any specific promos going around with MRs.

I can see where this thread is headed.

Thanks guys. I’ll log in to the Amex website and see what I find.

There's a British Airways promo. One of their partners is American Airlines.

I fly a variety of airlines, but sometimes on short notice, and booking an AA award flight through BA lets me avoid a close-in award booking fee.

One thing to mention is that British Aveos are worthless when booking American Airline International flights. And there are three credit cards with big AA sign up bonuses.

K-in-Boston · ‎08-27-2017

@Jaylima91 wrote:
My question should’ve specified that I want to know what some of you guys are using it for currently.

I transfer my points to Starwood 3:1, then to Marriott 1:3 to make an even exchange for Membership Rewards. I typically book rooms during times of higher demand and have been using the 5th night free when redeeming points, so I am effectively getting about 2 cents per point. 2 cents isn't extraordinary, but I try to only rack up MRs on purchases that give me more than 1 MR point and doing this (and Chase UR points to Marriott) is a good way to combine with my primary SPG card to build up massive points without having to think too hard when it comes time to redeem.