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Bilt’s June 1 Rent Day features Madonna, because she has a new album (Confessions II) coming out July 3. They’ll have a custom vinyl available members, and they’re covering a full month of rent for an entire building where she was one of the first tenants (The Music Building at 584 Eighth Avenue in New York).
I don’t know anything about Madonna’s new album. I still love Like a Prayer, Into the Groove, Borderline and Material Girl (my friend Robert Wuhl actually opens the Material Girl video, he’s twice hosted the Freddie Awards and he’s a great aficionado of miles nad points).
But I do know points transfer bonuses. And this month’s rent day points offer is a big bonus on transfers to TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go. On June 1, they’ll offer:
- Blue members: 25% transfer bonus
- Silver: 50% transfer bonus
- Gold: 75% transfer bonus
- Platinum: 100% transfer bonus
- Plus, members can spend $150 Bilt Cash for an additional 25% transfer bonus
So the offer is up to a 125% transfer bonus to TAP Air Portugal, capped at transferring 100,000 Bilt Points and receiving 225,000 TAP points.
TAP is Star Alliance airline, giving them access to a broad array of partners for redemption. While seemingly niche, they offer some sweet spots. For instance,
- TAP lets you redeem miles for qualifying miles for those looking to earn status with them.
- They’ve moved to flexible redemption pricing for their own flights, so more often than not it’s possible to find award space between the U.S. and Europe, and that pricing can be lower than what U.S. airlines will charge for their own flights. That’s not something you can redeem for using partner miles – you need TAP’s own miles for this.
- Flights within mainland Portugal start at just 3,250 miles one-way, while intra-Europe travel starts at just 7,500 miles.
I’m not doing this. Bilt has the most – and best – transfer partners overall. I will save my points for other uses. Here’s their stable:
- Star Alliance: Air Canada Aeroplan, Turkish Miles & Smiles, United Airlines MileagePlus, Avianca LifeMiles, TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go
- oneworld: Cathay Pacific Asia Miles, Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan, Iberia Plus, British Airways Club, Japan Airlines Mileage Bank, Qatar Airways Privilege Club
- SkyTeam: Air France KLM Flying Blue, Virgin Atlantic Flying Club
- Non-alliance: Emirates Skywards, Southwest Airlines, Aer Lingus Aer Club
- Hotels: World Of Hyatt, IHG One Rewards, Marriott Bonvoy, Hilton Honors, Accor ALL – Accor Live Limitless, Wyndham Rewards
As always they have comedy show deals, restaurant experiences, and special member fitness classes. There’s also a food truck at their 837 Washington Street headquarters on June 1 for free Chicken and Paneer Kati Rolls and a 7oz mango lassi.
Madonna is doing their Rent Free game show where members can play to earn free rent up to $2,500 or Bilt Points. And they’re hosting Madonna album release parties on July 3 in New York, LA, and Chicago. You can redeem points for these.
Plus, there’s double points with the Bilt credit cards excluding housing payments, up to 1,000 bonus points, on May 1.
Two turds in three months. First Wyndham, now TAP Portugal. C’mon Bilt! I really look forward to Rent Day transfer bonuses, but lately you’ve in a Colorado Rockies-type slump.
I can’t wait to pay my rent for this one!
I bought TAP miles two years ago at a time that they regularly had good rates across the Atlantic.
The changed their policy and the miles have proven to be worse than useless, devaluing every year. I expect to have to ‘force use’ them at a loss.
So, unless you have a specific, priced strategy skip this offer.
If I’m an investor in Bilt, I wouldn’t be happy with Ankur wasting my money on paid promotions to kiss up to celebrities (no way Madonna is doing this for free to promote her album). Mark my words: this company is going to be in major pain in one year after one year anniversary of 2.0 launch and huge chunk of palladium’s downgrade or cancel.
No “Dining Experiences” in Dallas I see.
And Gary Leff wrote “Justify My Love”
I really like that she’s covering a full month of rent for that entire building in NYC for artists. I’m a fan, and I just played the Rent Free game!
I also noticed on Twitter that lots of young people are now opening Bilt accounts only to order the special release vinyl. It seems like a win-win for both Madonna and Bilt.
If you dig deeper, you will see that you are in essence trading your bilt points for lufthansa or flying blue Miles. Tap will get sold this summer to one of those two bitters.
Was so lame. @L3… where’s that Blacklane credit?!?! Cmon….