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a13solut3
post Aug 21 2020, 11:47 AM

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hilton gold here, so far so good. need 24 stays more to achieve diamond with about 400k points to be utilized.

i think diamond is tad overkill. recent 3 stays at kl, melaka, and pj got upgraded to better room, but never get executive room yet.

hilton kl took the extra mile sending me 3 jar of peanuts to my room with a handwritten letter from hotel GM.

got some bad experience at one of their restaurant, posted in tripadvisor, f&b manager managed to trace back my detail and called to apologize. service recovery is very good.

doubletree jb i stay in the presidential suite once, and heck, that actually changed my entire perspective of premium room in a hotel, macam orang kampung.

during my stay in Seahawk FUK on march, i got upgraded to a panoramic suite worth rm2k / night and get treated very very well there, came with a gold flake chocolates, macarons, 4 bottles of antipods still+sparkling water and a handwritten welcome letter. i only spent about 34k HH points on that day.

all in all, i gives hilton 8/10 overall.

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post Jul 4 2023, 10:02 AM

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QUOTE(jerantut2011 @ Jul 4 2023, 05:19 AM)
It depends on whether one prefers to use the miles to redeem flights or convert to cash.

1) If redeeming flights is preferable and there is limited number of miles, then this offer is not attractive.

2) If one has enough miles for flight redemption and extra miles to convert to cash, then this is excellent offer - perhaps "once in a lifetime offer". Normally, it is very difficult to achieve Enrich Gold status, unless one's company pays for full fare international flights with MAS or One World Alliance, many times a year. The Enrich Gold / Sapphire Blue One World status grants its holders the access to business class lounges, priority boarding, and extra 50% luggage allowance whenever you are flying Economy class on ANY airlines in the One World Alliance - this includes Cathy Pacific, British Airway, Qatar, Japan Airlines, etc.

For example, if one has the CIMB WTE credit card, 800,000 points. These can be converted to either 80,000 Enrich miles or RM 2000 cashback directly into CIMB savings/current account.

This month, Enrich offers 10% extra miles if you convert Points to Enrich.
Therefore,

800,000 CIMB Points > 88,000 miles (inclusive of 10% miles)

88,000 Enrich miles can be converted to 88,000 EnrichMoney points (1:1 conversion). The 88,000 EnrichMoney points can be converted to cashback of 88,000/40 = RM 2200 to spend via the EnrichMoney Prepaid Visa card. Additionally and most importantly, you also earn Enrich GOLD / SAPPHIRE BLUE status with all One World airlines for about 15 months - with expiry in December 2024.

I think the offer is too good to be true but true - more so when coupled with 10% extra Miles this month
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im very close to converting this now.. seems like a good deal.
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post Jul 16 2023, 01:11 PM

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QUOTE(shirleywst19 @ Jul 15 2023, 06:15 PM)
Did u convert already? Do u managed to redeem enrich money points to cash?
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I already converted 80k

Last swipe is on 7th July, need to wait around 14 days only can start using the point to cash redemption.


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post Aug 1 2023, 11:27 AM

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QUOTE(fruitie @ Aug 1 2023, 11:22 AM)
I flew on the Cathay Pacific J class to HK last two weeks. The crew was friendly, and the food was pretty OK.

Of course, the experience of the SQ J class is much better. I still miss it.

I redeemed M2 Premier TP and it was credited in my AM account within half an hour. Impressive!
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you upgrade from econ or direct buy J class?
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post Feb 15 2024, 09:10 AM

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QUOTE(coolguy99 @ Feb 15 2024, 08:23 AM)
Damn converted everything on my cimb card already as they hv charged me annual fee.
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Doesn't matter as EM redemption already increased to 12k : 1k pts now. So the 20% bonus breakeven the inflation on the redemption.
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post May 20 2025, 04:16 PM

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QUOTE(fruitie @ May 20 2025, 01:52 PM)
I will still pick SQ in that case, just that not many cards offer other programs besides EM. So, I had to settle with MH.
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UOB metal card ka?

My table shows UOB only worth spend on VI - Dining cat. Not sure if other still valuable or not apart from CIMB TWE - International / Airlines TX or AMEX PLAT.

 

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