Starwood Points On Sale Until July 20th

One of my favorite loyalty programs is Starwood Preferred Guest. Besides using points for free hotel rooms, you can also transfer points to dozens of airlines for free flights. 

Starwood points are good at Sheraton, Westin, W, Aloft and more hotel brands. And if you take advantage of the 5th-night FREE option, that's a huge savings. Plus you can transfer them to dozens of airlines including American and Alaska at 1:1 and for every 20,000 points you transfer, SPG will give you a 5,000 bonus. 

SPG is merging with Marriott in August so right now, you can transfer SPG points to Marriott at a 1:3 ratio to take advantage of vacation packages or to book Marriott hotels. 

Until July 20th, SPG is selling points at a 35% discount. I don't usually support buying points, but if you need points to top off your account so you can reach 20,000 and get the bonus on the airline ticket or have enough points for a certain hotel stay, then go for it. 

Hilton just offered a similar sale and I bought a few thousand points to top off my account so I had enough points to cash in for 2 rooms for 5 days in Panama City. Woohoo!

$114 for 5,000 points is the minimum to take advantage of the discount. 

That's how we do it at almost FREE family travel.