Please Don’t Waste Your Bilt Factors With New Switch Accomplice Marriott
Bilt Rewards has added Marriott Bonvoy as a factors switch companion. You get 100 Bilt factors for linking your accounts, which is customary for Bilt companions.
Marriott Waikiki Seaside
Please don’t switch Bilt factors to Marriott simply as you shouldn’t switch them to IHG.
- I worth a Bilt level at $0.017 apiece and a Marriott level at $0.006. A one-to-one switch represents practically a two-thirds loss in worth. Even transferring 20,000 Bilt factors into 25,000 Marriott factors represents round a 55% loss in worth.
- Is it potential on the excessive finish to get a couple of penny per Marriott level? Sure. You are able to do so significantly better with Bilt. Certainly, you may ebook journey via the Bilt portal at 1.25 cents apiece. You’ll surrender Marriott elite advantages within the course of. Higher to make use of your Bilt factors for airfare and pay money in your resort keep.
- At present’s the final day of a Marriott 40% bonus on bought factors (related affords are semi-regular) that permits you to purchase Marriott factors for a penny apiece. Higher to make use of your Bilt factors for one thing else and purchase Marriott factors when you want Marriott factors. And if you wish to redeem Bilt for resort stays you’ll do much better transferring to Hyatt.
By way of rebate worth for resort stays, Marriott might be sturdy. It’s simply {that a} single Marriott level isn’t price a lot, which is why high elites have to earn as much as 17.5 factors per greenback with out bonuses for the numbers to work. Base earn in this system is 10 factors per greenback (for a non-elite) in comparison with 5 factors per greenback from Hyatt. Every Marriott level is simply price much less which is why 1:1 transfers to Marriott are low worth. That’s true for Bilt transfers and in addition for American Categorical and Chase transfers to Marriott as nicely.
Marriott could also be offended by this. Bilt most likely received’t prefer it both. However I’m laying down fact right here, and it’s basic math. Marriott factors transfers are merely not use of Bilt factors. You may switch to Air Canada Aeroplan, United or American, Turkish and extra. Anybody paying a bit of little bit of consideration can do higher than a switch to Marriott. Bilt factors are price an excessive amount of to maneuver them to Marriott.
By means of November 20, Bilt has elevated its referral bonus from 2,500 factors to 10,000 factors.
In honor of our win on the TPG awards, we’re providing you with 10,000 factors for each referral! Now’s the time to get your family and friends to enroll. pic.twitter.com/YmLv1nYODJ
— Richard Kerr (@KerrPoints) November 7, 2023
