It’s been a great year for new loyalty programs being added to transferable points programs and we’re not done yet.
The Mesa Homeowners Card awards transferable points for paying your mortgage and has several interesting bonus point earning categories and transfer partners. In June 2025 they added Aeroplan and SAS Eurobonus as new transfer partners and today they’ve added Omni Select Guest – the loyalty program of Omni Hotels & Resorts – as another transfer partner.
I wasn’t familiar with Omni’s loyalty program until now, but it turns out they have a remarkably straightforward way of earning and redeeming free nights.
Rather than earning points, you earn credits. Members without status and those with Insider status earn five credits per night stayed, while those with Champion or Icon status earn ten credits per night. Standard, Insider, and Champion members earn one additional credit for every $100 charged to their room (i.e. not room rate, but expenses like meals, spa treatments, etc.), while those with Icon status earn two credits for every $100 spent.
As for free night redemptions, those cost 100 credits per night. That’s a flat redemption rate at every single Omni property; there’s no award chart, no peak/off-peak pricing, etc. That means this program has the potential for outsized value when redeeming 100 credits if you book your free night(s) at hotels that have particularly high room rates, whether that’s due to its location, an event happening nearby, quality of hotel, etc.
Omni Hotels & Resorts locations are allowed to have blackout dates for award redemptions. While that’s not ideal, they do at least transparently provide the specific dates for each applicable property on this page.
If the Omni property you’ll be staying at has destination and/or resort fees, those will be waived on award stays.
As for the Mesa partnership, 30,000 Mesa points will transfer as 100 Omni credits. That means redeeming 30,000 points will get you a free night award at any Omni property which could be very good value. You can transfer up to 120,000 Mesa points to Omni at a time, although you can make multiple transfers if you want to move over more points than that.
Mesa’s only other hotel transfer partner is Accor Live Limitless which transfers on a 3:2 basis. If you were to transfer 30,000 Mesa points to Accor, you’d have 20,000 Accor points. Those points are worth a fixed two Euro cents per point, making 20,000 Accor points worth €400 (~$465). That means you’re capped at ~1.5 cents per point of value (depending on the Euro/USD exchange rate) with Accor transfers which certainly isn’t bad, but it does mean that Omni offers much higher upside potential.
If this new partnership leads you to book stays with Omni, there’s currently a targeted Amex Offer awarding $100 back as a statement credit when spending $500.
Now that Omni has become a transfer partner of Mesa, it’ll be interesting to see if any further transferable points programs manage to ink a deal with them in the new year.
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Omni Parker house Boston has an amazing history and great location. Never stayed there though
Beautiful property with good service (and their Parker House rolls are mmm, mmm, good)
Is the free room redemption only for the base rooms?
I am curious about this as well
Any hacks around getting approved for Mesa? I’ve been “waitlisted” for 5+ months…
This would be great if I could actually apply for the card instead of being stuck on the waitlist.
lol same
+1. These guys (Mesa) blow.
While more transfer partners is better than less, consider me underwhelmed. And they don’t have a large footprint – nothing outside of the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Omni is an odd brand. I feel like their properties were really quite nice in the 1980s and 1990s. Maybe even early 2000s. But it’s been 15 years since I’ve ever had an Omni that was an option to stay at. I also don’t know anyone who has stayed at an Omni either. You also never come across their properties on travel or points blogs. It’s bizarre. I’m actually surprised that Hyatt hasn’t swooped in to buy Omni. While there would be some duplication, it would give Hyatt some more properties domestically in the United States.
I have stayed at an Omni in Chicago and in Fort Worth. Both were quite nice hotels. This really does have the potential to have some outsized value.
Most Omni hotels are part of THC, and as a result, we stayed at one in Montreal last year and staying at one in Orlando in a couple of weeks. Montreal one was nice and the F&B credit from THC was good enough to cover BF for 2A+2C for 2 days. The one in Orlando is a bit away from main theme parks, but works great for us since we don’t care about theme parks.
I’m unfamiliar with how Omni operates. Are they franchised or they are owned and managed by Omni? It’s just bizarre that Hyatt hasn’t bought Omni.
Omni hotels remind of the Loews brand as well. Both have almost all their properties in FHR/THC and are just overall nice brands that fly under the radar a bit – not a lot of locations, not part of a larger brand, and few points and miles opportunities. But very solid hotels.
While I mostly agree, they have a couple of gems here and there. Check out the Omni Grove Park Inn.
It’s a fantastic property! One of my all time favorite resort stays, in part because of their spectacular spa!
is subterranean, was just there! Gorgeous mountain lodge, I didn’t want to leave
I’ve been saying for years that Hyatt should buy Omni! With that said, they do have some quite nice properties