Transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards Points Into Marriott Points And Get A 65% Bonus; Should You Transfer Chase Points To Alaska Atmos Points?

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Transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards Points Into Marriott Points And Get A 65% Bonus

Chase points normally transfer into Marriott points at a 1K:1K ratio, but until 5/15 at 11:59pm ET you can get 1,650 Marriott points for every 1,000 Chase points.

From 5/16-6/30 you can get 1,550 Marriott points for every 1,000 Chase points.

Transferring points will also extend the 24 month expiration date from the date of your last qualifying activity.

That’s much higher than the previous 40% and 50% bonuses, but it’s still not a particularly good deal. I’d value Marriott points at about 0.6 cents each, so with typical usage you would only get a value of .99 cents per Chase point. You can do much better with other transfer or redemption options. You can often buy Marriott points with a promo here that will make more sense than a transfer. Currently, Marriott is offering to sell me points for 0.875 cents each.

However, if you need some Marriott points for a niche lucrative hotel redemption, then it can make sense to transfer or purchase points.

For example, 5 nights at The Al Maha Dubai Resort, which has villas with private pools as their base room, all meals (even kosher meals!) included and 2 daily desert adventure activities included, can be had from 432K points instead of $5,760, a value of 1.33 cents per point:

5 nights at Zadún, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve which has villas with private pools as their base room and has meat and dairy gourmet kosher kitchens under Chabad hashgocha on-site, can be had from 476.8K points instead of $6,970, a value of 1.46 cents per point:

5 nights at The S. Regis Bora Bora Resort which has villas with private pools as their base room, can be had from 514K points instead of $6,500, a value of 1.26 cents per point:

5 nights at The Ritz-Carlton, Herzliya can be had from 248K points instead of $2,940, a value of 1.19 cents per point:

If you transfer Marriott points into airline miles at 60K increments you get a 25% bonus, so it can also make sense to transfer if you need a few points to hit a 60K increment.

60K Marriott points converts into 20-25K airline miles or 30K United miles, so it probably won’t be worth transferring Chase points just to transfer to an airline as it would take 36,363 Chase points to get 60K Marriott points with this transfer bonus. That is unless you really want miles with a Marriott partner like Aegean, Alaska, ANA, Copa, Etihad, JAL, Korean, LATAM, Qantas, or Turkish that don’t transfer directly from Chase and you’re willing to accept a 36.3K:25K transfer ratio, or about .69 airline miles per Chase point.

The best way to rack up Alaska Atmos points are on their excellent credit cards, but what if you’re loaded with Chase points?

I suppose with Alaska short-haul awards for just 4.5K points in coach, 6K in premium, or 9K in business on American or Porter it can make sense? That would be like redeeming roughly 6.52K Chase points for coach, 8.69K for premium, or 13K Chase points for business on an award like NYC to Cleveland, Detroit, Montreal, Pittsburgh, or Toronto, or Newark or Philadelphia to Chicago.

NYC to Toronto:

NYC to Chicago:

NYC to Montreal:

NYC to Cleveland:

If you, a member in your household, or an authorized user has one of the following Chase cards, you can transfer points into miles:

• Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card has a 75K signup bonus for spending $5K in 3 months, earns 2.1 points per dollar on travel after the card’s 10% anniversary bonus, 3.1 points per dollar on dining, streaming, and online groceries after the card’s 10% anniversary bonus, has a $50 hotel credit, can transfer all Chase points into miles, and points are worth at least 1 cents each for paid travel ($95 annual fee). Read more here.
• Chase Sapphire Reserve® has a 150,000 bonus points after you spend $6,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening. ($795 annual fee) Read more here.
• Chase Sapphire Reserve for Business℠ has a 150,000 bonus points signup bonus after you spend $20,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening ($795 annual fee). Read more here.
• Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card has a 100,000 signup bonus for spending $8K in 3 months, and earns 3 points per dollar on up to $150K of annual spending on shipping; social media and search engine advertising; travel; internet, cable, and phone services, can transfer all Chase points into miles, and points are worth at least 1 cents each for paid travel ($95 annual fee). Read more here.

Chase no-annual fee cards that are fantastic for earning points, but require one of the cards above for points transfers include:

• Ink Business Unlimited® Credit Card has a $750 signup bonus in the form of 75K points for spending $6K in 3 months, and earns 1.5 points per dollar on business purchases ($0 annual fee). Read more here.
• Ink Business Cash® Credit Card has a $750 signup bonus in the form of 75K points for spending $6K in 3 months. This card earns 5 points per dollar on the first $25,000 in combined purchases on cable, TV, telecom, cellular, and office supply stores, plus 2 points per dollar on dining and gas on up to $25,000 in purchases ($0 annual fee). Read more here.
• Chase Freedom Flex has a 20K signup bonus for spending $500 in 3 months, plus 5 points on rotating categories, 5 points per dollar on travel purchased through Chase Travel℠, and 3 points per dollar on dining and drugstores ($0 annual fee). Read more here. All information about the Chase Freedom Flex Card has been collected independently by DansDeals.
• Chase Freedom Unlimited® has a $200 signup bonus in the form of 20K points for spending $500 in 3 months, 1.5 points per dollar everywhere, 5 points per dollar (marketed as 5% cash back) on travel purchased through Chase Travel℠, and 3 points per dollar on dining and drugstores ($0 annual fee). Read more here.

Will you transfer any points to Marriott with this promo?

HT: Eluzer K.