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Avianca LifeMiles is offering 4x miles for hotel bookings. That’s not quite as good as the time they offered 5x miles (See: [Dead] HOT deal: 5x LifeMiles with hotel bookings (30K on $390 booking), but that offer sold out in just a few hours. Today’s promotion (valid 9/11/19 only) started at 1pm and ends at 9pm CST (that’s central time) — though I doubt it will last that long. Timing on this is great as you should receive the miles for stays completed in the next two weeks in time to take advantage of the current award sale to Asia (See: LifeMiles Award Sale: Save 7-31% On Select Routes Worldwide (Plus Buy LifeMiles With Up To 145% Bonus).
The Deal
- Get 3x Avianca LifeMiles when you book hotels through LifeMiles, 12/5/18 only from 10am to 10pm EST or when this runs out, which will likely be sooner
- Direct link to this promotion
Key Terms
- Valid for bookings made on September 11th, 2019 between 1:00 PM CST and 9:00 PM CST or until the maximum miles available for the promotion of 5,000,000 is reached, whichever happens first.
- Offer applies only for bookings made through the dedicated website: https://hotels.lifemiles.com/l/4x/en/
- Valid to stay between September 12th, 2019 and December 31st, 2019.
- The bonus will be awarded upon check out
- Promotional Bonus cannot exceed the maximum bonus amount of 100,000 (two hundred thousand) LifeMiles per reservation.
- Only two (2) reservations per member
- If the reservation is cancelled, bonus miles will not be awarded to the customer.
- The promotional offers above cannot be combined and cannot be applied to existing bookings or retroactively applied to bookings not made using the link above.
- Miles accrued under this promotion are not valid to obtain or maintain the LifeMiles Elite Status.
- Miles will be accrued on the members account entered when paying for the reservation, no later than fifteen (15) business days after the stay has been completed and if all conditions have been met.
- LifeMiles Hotels reserves the right to retract a bonus at any time if it detects technical errors, cancel/rebooking activity (defined by identical search criteria), or any deceptive behavior attempted to circumvent the limits expressed above including multiple accounts.
- Miles will be credited in two steps: One (01) for the accrual of LifeMiles that is normally awarded through LifeMiles Hotels (1X), depending on the chosen hotel and one (01) credit for the additional 3X LifeMiles awarded due to this promotion.
- Transactions made hotels.lifemiles.com are made with Rocketmiles and the terms and conditions of such site shall apply.
Quick Thoughts
Reader Bill passed this along to us while noting that there are some instances where you could use this sale to effectively buy miles for around (or maybe less than) one cent each. Here is one example Bill shared:
As you can see, the nightly rate there is $510 per night and a one-night stay would earn 60K total miles. With taxes and fees, that’s probably right around 1 cent per mile, which is an excellent price for LifeMiles — all the better if you actually need a stay in South Miami.
With past similar offers, some folks found outliers that offered really impressive return. Keep in mind that bookings through this promotion are handled through Rocketmiles (but note that you must book through the dedicate site linked to under “The Deal”, not Rocketmiles.com), so stays most likely will not earn elite credit, points, or grant access to elite benefits. Still, the return in some instances likely washes away those benefits. Also keep in mind that a single reservation can’t earn more than 100K miles (that’s a decrease) and furthermore members are limited to 2 reservations through this promotion this time — surely a way to prevent a handful of people from claiming all of the points. This time, they are capping the promo at 5,000,000 bonus miles, at which point they will pull it. If people cap it out at 100K miles per booking, it still won’t last the entire time — though the new limits will slow down the death of the deal considerably.
I’m still traveling at the moment and haven’t yet booked my accommodations for tomorrow and Friday nights, so this deal is particularly timely for me if I can find a place where the return is great enough within the area I want to be. I’m certainly going back to searching after publishing this post.
H/T: Reader Bill
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Great find! Found some needed hotels in Baltimore in Oct for 10-20 K extra miles per night.
Not all gone, but they changed the offer during booking
Had it set up to book Hyatt Ziva for 5 nights with 52000 miles. clicked book and it changed to 24,000 and non refundable versus previously cancellable through 17th
LOL,
Nice way to run a promo.
book couple of hotels in Asia and got me a total of 200k for under 1.5k. I have had the card in the past but closed it a year ago. It still gave me the promo rate for the card. The confirmation email also clearly displays it. I full expect to receive the whole amount. a win-win-win
I booked two reservations that I needed with or without this promotion and I’m netting approximately 140k Lifemiles for $2k. Plus 13 hotel nights I needed. If you sign-up for club Lifemiles you get an enhanced bonus. There is a $9.99 per month option that you can cancel once miles post. This got me an extra 25k Lifemiles. Thank you for posting, Nick.
Hot hack on Club LifeMiles. Ack! Now I need to go back and search again. That might make a big enough difference….
FYI – it took about 20 minutes until LifeMiles recognized me as a club member once I signed up.
Like looking for a needle in a haystack. W NYC Downtown $935 (what is it, like $1050 with taxes/fees?) is supposed to earn 80k… so, like buying miles with their current bonus and getting a free night. But when you go to book, it’s no longer available.
Edit: now getting the same message on the search page as @Kalboz below. Deal dead, I think.
Are you guys checking like one city? I’m getting through to the final booking page in multiple cities no problem.
I did run into Marriott properties in several cities where I had that problem with it no longer being available at checkout. But I’ve had no trouble with others / indie properties. Definitely no dead as of 7:13pm Eastern. Just looked up Dallas for a weekend this month and I’m finding plenty of places.
I found a few places $137 for 16,000 miles. It’s like a hostel. I would never stay there. Wonder if it’s worth buying the points for that price.
Whether or not it is depends on your plans for using them. Just this past week, I used 6500 miles + $15 to take flights that would have cost $297 out of pocket or 10K United miles + $80 or a one-way car rental for $120 plus the time and gas to drive it. I’d be happy to have earned enough miles for a round trip (with some left over in your example) for $137. That said, I won’t be flying that particular route any time soon — so buying them today for the flights I already took is less appealing (though in my case I have a route I fly a couple of times a year where it’s 7.5K each way plus $15 — so in your example, $167 would be enough to get me a RT on a route that is routinely $400+. Again, I’d be interested at that price — but whether or not you would depends on you.
In case you want to book it. Miles post in 3 days. Shangrila Kathmandu October dates. Just to be clear, this is not the Shangri-la chain. It’s some room with 4 beds.
I did burn some Lifemiles recently but I’m sitting on some that I don’t have a use for so not sure I want to just hold a stash.
This is a scam as certain locations are not showing any availability! After initially showing plenty of availability, once I signed into my LifeMiles account to finalize the reservation, bait & switch occurred!
We don’t currently have offers in Bangkok, Thailand for these specific dates.
Please change your search criteria or try again later.
Cleared the Cache, restarted the computer, and changed the dates … to the same algorithmic results!
Unfortunately, availability of this room changed when we reached out to confirm the reservation details for payment. Please select a different hotel. Click to go back
did it end already? I was searching for dates and suddenly it’s telling me that no offers for the date I selected. I tried other cities and dates, 0 search results.
What is the date for the above screenshot? I have not been able to get anywhere close to what they promise
what is ‘COBRAND & ELITE MEMBERS’ that earns 40% more. is it the cobrand LM visa card?
I assume that cobrand is the LM visa, but I don’t have that card (nor do I have elite status) — the bonus you’re referring to is separate (and I’m not sure of the complete details). The bonus covered in the post is for everyone.
If you have the Banco Popular Avianca card you qualify. I just logged in and it showed up.