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Radisson Rewards is offering 20% back for award stays booked by January 20th, 2021. Stays must complete by April 18th 2021. Registration is required.
The Deal
Get 20% points back when you redeem for Award Nights and airline miles from January 11 – 20, 2021. For Award Night stays from January 11 – April 18, 2021. Alternatively you can redeem points for gift cards from January 11 – 20, 2021 and get 15% points back.
Registration is required: www.radissonhotels.com/en-us/rewards/offers/redeem-points-rebate.
My Take
Meh. I’d like to see a deal like this during a time when more of us will be travelling. Obviously if you’re going to redeem Radisson Rewards points anyway during this time period, then it’s great to get this rebate. However, I don’t see this as enough incentive to go out of my way to book stays. Also, redeeming Radisson Rewards points for airline miles or gift cards is never a good deal in my opinion. This extra rebate doesn’t change that fact.
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unless you convert to Asiana…..but since Asiana is going away and the credit card is no more…
Do they offer a good transfer ratio to Asiana?
The ratio with all airlines is the same *i think*. The thing is bus class awards are relatively low on Asiana…you can do 1-ways.
My “long-term” strategy before this year was to just keep accumulating points via the annual bonus on the Consumer & Bus cards and then combine with Asiana c/c (Which I had once) to get good price bus class tkts.
Independent of c/c bonuses…
80,000 points from credit cards / year (40×2) = 8000 Asiana miles for a/f cost of $150 or so. 4 years of that is $600 (+ opp cost if u want to figure that in). After 4 years 32,000 Asiana miles.
35,000 is one/way bus to South America. Or after 5 years – $750 = 400,000 –> 40,000 Asiana miles, 1-way bus to Europe.
Of course, this was assuming no devaluation during this time. 600-$750/way for Star business is not too bad. Or it was decent. Yes, you can/have done much better of course, but it was an option if I never redeemed at Radisson hotels.
And the plan was to use it in conjunction with the Asiana c/c.
I just transferred enough points to get me to 40,000 so I could use for 1-way Bus Star Alliance to Europe. And that will be the end of Asiana miles for me.
Also gotta a call-in, hassle. And no free cancellation – $30?. Let’s see how easy/hard it is to use them!
Radisson Blu here I come!