Unlocking Holiday Magic! Turn Your Credit Card Points into Dream Vacation, Check Details

Credit Card: A lot of people schedule their yearly trip in December. Since kids have their Christmas vacation during the last week of December, they prefer to take a vacation from office work during that time. Additionally, the weather is ideal for vacationing. Imagine being able to use your credit card reward points to register for a hotel loyalty programme and use them to earn free hotel stays for your yearly vacation. Let's examine how.

Unlocking Exclusive Benefits

When you stay at a hotel group property, you can take advantage of a variety of benefits through a hotel loyalty programme, which is a membership programme. It is employed to draw in new guests and keep hold of current ones so they will stay at the group's different hotel properties. In India, a few popular hotel loyalty programmes are as follows:

• Marriott Bonvoy
• Accor Live Limitless (ALL) and Accor Plus
• Taj Epicure
• Club ITC etc

Exclusive Rates for Loyalty Program Members

The following are a few of the member perks that different hotel loyalty programmes provide:

• Reduction in the cost of the accommodation
• Discounts for the spa, food & drink, and other on-site amenities
• Early access to hotel promotions, member-only discounts and offers, invitations to member-only events, etc. Early check-in and late check-out times.
• Gaining reward points for qualifying purchases, such as the cost of a reservation for a hotel, meals, etc.
• Using reward points to cover costs for dining out, lodging, etc.
• Improvements to the rooms
• Entry to the lounge
• Points bonuses, complimentary nights, etc.
• The ability to transfer reward points to other frequent flyer or hotel loyalty programmes (FFPs)
• A welcome gift, free breakfast and/or other meal(s), etc. are additional advantages.

General Advantages Across Hotel Loyalty Programs

These are not exclusive to any one hotel loyalty programme, but rather some general advantages of participating in one. Please be aware that the benefits of each hotel loyalty programme vary. There are membership tiers such as silver, gold, platinum, etc. in certain hotel loyalty programmes. The tier is determined by factors like the total amount spent in a year or the number of nights spent. Each tier offers different advantages. The benefits increase with tier level.

Credit Card Options

Customers can transfer their credit card reward points to hotel loyalty programmes through partnerships that some banks have with different hotel loyalty programmes. Transferring the reward points in a particular ratio is possible. The following banks are among those that let you transfer credit card reward points to hotel loyalty programmes:

Points earned on your HDFC Bank credit card can be transferred to

• Accor Live Limitless (ALL)
• Wyndham Rewards
• IHG One Rewards

Points earned from Axis Bank credit cards can be converted to

• Accor Live Limitless (ALL)
• Marriott Bonvoy
• Wyndham Rewards
• IHG One Rewards
• Club ITC

Points earned from your American Express credit card can be converted to

• Marriott Bonvoy

Transferring credit card reward points to a hotel loyalty programme can occasionally result in bonuses. For instance, American Express is offering a promotion that allows you to transfer your credit card reward points to Marriott Bonvoy and receive a 30% bonus. This offer is valid from November 16, 2023, to December 15, 2023. Thus, you will get 130 Marriott Bonvoy points for every 100 American Express credit card reward points you transfer.

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