{"id":9165,"date":"2020-12-16T21:49:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T21:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=9165"},"modified":"2020-12-16T21:49:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T21:49:59","slug":"free-emirates-silver-for-transferring-your-hotel-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/2020\/12\/16\/free-emirates-silver-for-transferring-your-hotel-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Emirates Silver for transferring your hotel points"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Like many other airlines, Emirates has run a few different forms of promotions this year to collect funding, and the one currently running is particularly interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/emirates-elite-cards.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/emirates-elite-cards.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8522\" width=\"281\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/emirates-elite-cards.jpg 375w, https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/emirates-elite-cards-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emirates.com\/ae\/english\/skywards\/spend-miles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">You can access the offer here<\/a>. It appears that the offer page is only shown when selected country is UAE, but according to the terms and conditions it should be available to all members globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before 31 January 2021, all award miles transferred from <em>eligible<\/em> partner programmes will also earn <strong>25% tier miles<\/strong> as a bonus. You can earn maximum 25,000 tier miles (requires 100K award miles transfer), which is just enough to upgrade you to <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color\">Emirates Silver<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eligible partners include certain banks in UAE, as well as Accor, Hyatt, Marriott and Shangri-la.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When flying Emirates, Silver offers the following privileges:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Free seat selection<\/li><li>Extra baggage allowance<\/li><li>Priority check-in and boarding<\/li><li>Business Class lounge access at Dubai<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You could also earn <strong>1 Emirates mile<\/strong> for every USD you spend at Marriott hotels globally through the <em>Your World<\/em> programme, and this is in addition to the Marriott points. Note that you&#8217;ll first need to <a href=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/your-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">link your Marriott and Emirates accounts here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/marriott-emirates-yout-world.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/marriott-emirates-yout-world.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5125\" width=\"233\" height=\"74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/marriott-emirates-yout-world.png 932w, https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/marriott-emirates-yout-world-300x95.png 300w, https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/marriott-emirates-yout-world-768x244.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Emirates doesn&#8217;t have the best redemption chart in the world, however for redeeming Business Class or First Class tickets on their own metal the miles are not bad. I transferred 85K Amex points earlier this year for a First Class trip in February, and God knows whether I&#8217;ll be able to fly&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from redeeming on flights, you could also use the miles on sports or event tickets sponsored by Emirates, which usually are great deals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/ke-marriott-account-snapshot.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/ke-marriott-account-snapshot-940x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-517\" width=\"235\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/ke-marriott-account-snapshot-940x1024.jpg 940w, https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/ke-marriott-account-snapshot-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/ke-marriott-account-snapshot-768x837.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/ke-marriott-account-snapshot.jpg 1042w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The best shot it is to transfer 240K Marriott points over and hit Emirates Silver straightaway, probably some time in January to maximise the duration of your membership. It may not be a crazy idea if you are sitting on a pile of Marriott points, and Emirates miles aren&#8217;t useless after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many other airlines, Emirates has run a few different forms of promotions this year to collect funding, and the one currently running is particularly interesting. You can access the offer here. It appears that the offer page is only shown when selected country is UAE, but according to the terms and conditions it should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/2020\/12\/16\/free-emirates-silver-for-transferring-your-hotel-points\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[117],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9168,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165\/revisions\/9168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}