My wife’s upcoming business conference in Boston
I have already booked free
round trip flights to Boston for my wife on American Airlines. We used 42,500 American Airlines
miles and paid $11.20 in taxes and fees. This has saved us a total of $543.80 on flights
(conservative estimate of value).
I was happy to find out that her business meeting will take place
at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, which coincidentally is a Starwood
Preferred Guest (SPG) property.
The Sheraton Boston Hotel has rates that are quite expensive for
the nights my wife needed hotel stay.
The cash price for staying at this hotel is minimum $353 a night,
the prepaid rate. A two-night stay
would have cost $706 to stay at this hotel! While there are many hotel or airbnb options close by the
Sheraton Boston Hotel, it doesn’t get more convenient than staying at the same
site of the conference.
The Sheraton Boston Hotel is an SPG category 5, which means that
it costs 14,000 Starpoints for a free award night, and 28,000 Starpoints for 2 free nights. Expensive.
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Note, the website says "From 12,000 Starpoints per night," however this stay would have cost 14,000 Starpoints per night. |
We have run low on Starpoints
Starwood Preferred Guest Starpoints are one of the most valuable
types of point currencies. When it
is possible to pay with an American Express card, we usually reach for one of
our SPG credit cards. Since
getting approved for our SPG
Personal and SPG
Business cards, we have redeemed Starpoints for free hotel stays all over
the world! Here is a list of the SPG
properties that we have stayed at, for free:
We saved $1,047.45
on 5
free nights in Tokyo, Japan at the Sheraton
Miyako Hotel.
We saved $278 on 2
free nights in San Francisco, California at the Four Points by Sheraton San Francisco Bay Bridge.
We saved $202.38 on 1
free night in Miami, Florida at the Element
Miami International Airport.
We saved $1,000 on 5
free nights in Seoul, South Korea at the Sheraton Seoul D Cube City Hotel.
Booking discounted room rates with SPG Cash & Points
Since we are running low on our balance of Starpoints, I decided
to try the SPG Cash & Points feature to book this hotel stay. Instead of paying $353 a night
to stay at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, using SPG Cash & Points gives us a
reduced rate of 6,000 Starpoints and $110 per night.
It is extremely easy to make your SPG Cash & Points
booking. The whole process took
less than 5 minutes, and took just a few clicks of the mouse. The total cost for my wife’s Sheraton
Boston Hotel stay came out to be 12,000 Starpoints and $220. By booking her hotel stay with SPG Cash
& Points, we saved $486!
It’s the best way to stretch the value of your Starpoints. See this chart for redemption rates:
You can read more about the SPG Cash & Points feature at the
SPG website here.
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