Found some intermiles from old HDFC card of my dad's. Here are some of my findings after couple of hours of research.
Please add your ideas since i am new to Intermiles.
Firstly, Intermiles suck. Absolutely suck.
Now that we have established that, moving on to ways one can redeem it in the increasing order of "worth it"
You can get 25Rs off for 61 miles and so on.
But their lineup is pretty impressive.
With taxes etc, it comes to 3.3 : 1
Taj uniformly has the worst conversions
4.2 : 1 is the best one can find, Seleqtions and IHCL go up to 5.5, definite avoid.
One can also waive off 10% of bill using 1000 intermiles
Lastly International Flights - Business
In general, this is consistently the best at conversion. Ethiad some routes give 2.9: 1 which is amazing but the issue is , it starts at 3L miles which is nuts w.r.t Intermiles
Even the random Sri lankan airlines flat bed ones, one can get 3.3 : 1 business class seats on proper dates
Please add your findings too. I am leaning towards spending the miles on staycation or vacation.
Please add your ideas since i am new to Intermiles.
Firstly, Intermiles suck. Absolutely suck.
Now that we have established that, moving on to ways one can redeem it in the increasing order of "worth it"
- Shopping vouchers. At 5.9:1 conversion , 16.9p for 1Rs this is one of the worst ways
You can get 25Rs off for 61 miles and so on.
But their lineup is pretty impressive.
- Domestic short haul flights: At 5:1 conversion, sometimes going up to 5.9 : 1, this is equally worse but free money is free money i guess
- Domestic Long haul flights: They sometimes offer 4.5:1 at higher priced airlines and specific routes
- International Hotels: I have not explored business hotels, but name brand ones (Mariott, Accor, Taj) have the worst conversion at 4.5-5 :1 and higher priced resort chains are okayish at 4:1
- Domestic Hotels
- Metro: At 3.5 : 1 , this is pretty decent if you want to do a staycation.
- Non Metro: Resort chains, once again this goes up to 4.5 -5 : 1
Example: The Oterra Bengaluru Electronics City
With taxes etc, it comes to 3.3 : 1
Taj uniformly has the worst conversions
4.2 : 1 is the best one can find, Seleqtions and IHCL go up to 5.5, definite avoid.
One can also waive off 10% of bill using 1000 intermiles
Lastly International Flights - Business
In general, this is consistently the best at conversion. Ethiad some routes give 2.9: 1 which is amazing but the issue is , it starts at 3L miles which is nuts w.r.t Intermiles
Even the random Sri lankan airlines flat bed ones, one can get 3.3 : 1 business class seats on proper dates
Please add your findings too. I am leaning towards spending the miles on staycation or vacation.
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