{"id":1165,"date":"2021-03-16T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:40:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:40:20","slug":"time-to-bonvoy-marriott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/16\/time-to-bonvoy-marriott\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to #Bonvoy Marriott?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/churning\/comments\/m5gi92\/daily_discussion_thread_march_15_2021\/\">Via Reddit,<\/a> there\u2019s currently a 40% transfer bonus from Membership Rewards points to Marriott Bonvoy points. My initial reaction was basically \u201cBonvoy\u2019s gonna #Bonvoy, this stinks\u201d, but <a aria-label=\"Robert at Milenomics (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milenomics.com\/author\/robertdwyer\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert at Milenomics<\/a> pointed out a hidden point of value in Marriott program: 2,400 Bonvoy points converts to 1,000 JAL Mileage Bank points. Why is this interesting?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>JAL Business Class awards from North America to Japan are 50,000 miles each way on non-peak days<\/li>\n<li>You can book seats further out with JAL Mileage Bank then you can with partners<\/li>\n<li>JAL often gives better award availability to its own mileage program than it gives to partners<\/li>\n<li>The JAL #Bonvoy backdoor costs approximately 85,000 Membership Rewards and has very low surcharges and increased availability<\/li>\n<li>The most inexpensive way to get to JAL award tickets are with AA and Alaska, neither of which are AmEx transfer partners; BA is an option but will usually end up costing more in terms of miles and surcharges. Cathay\u2019s Asia Miles are decent for AmEx partners too, but availability is less and booking windows are shorter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But the best reason to do this? You\u2019ll actually extract value out of the Marriott program. Remember, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/02\/bonvoyed\/\">it\u2019s probably not the best choice for your loyalty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Side note: It\u2019s really silly and hard to type \u201cBonvoy points\u201d, so, can we just collectively agree to rename them to Bonvoints? <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Google search bar with the word 'bonvoyed' entered, and suggestions for:\n\nbonvoyed meaning\nbonvoyed twitter\nmarriott bonvoy\ngetting bonvoyed\" class=\"wp-image-1166\" height=\"255\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bonvoyed-1024x510.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bonvoyed-1024x510.png 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bonvoyed-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bonvoyed-768x383.png 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bonvoyed.png 1184w\" width=\"512\"\/><figcaption>It genuinely makes me happy that <em>bonvoyed<\/em> is becoming a term with interesting search predictions, and the actual program phrase is fourth on the list.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Reddit, there\u2019s currently a 40% transfer bonus from Membership Rewards points to Marriott Bonvoy points. My initial reaction was basically \u201cBonvoy\u2019s gonna #Bonvoy, this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7335,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/7335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}