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Cash and points award nights are cancellable, and when you do cancel you get your full points refunded to your account (provide you cancel by the cancellation atlantic beach nc hotels deadline). You don t get your points and cash refunded. As a result, the cash and points award option is a backdoor way to discounted points purchase even when you aren t looking to book an award night.
Why might you want to do this? Well, one reason would be Priority Club offers PointBreaks awards, room nights at select hotels atlantic beach nc hotels for only 5000 points. Using the cash and points backdoor for points purchases, you can acquire 5000 points for $30.
I was recently short 4900 miles to platinum so I decided to do a remards booking atlantic beach nc hotels for 20,000 + $30. The 5000 points atlantic beach nc hotels are showing as an other transaction but did not increase my total points earned (and it didn t update when I cancelled and the 25,000 points went back to my account). So, I guess IC has closed the loop-hole on this one!
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