ASMALLWORLD has a new special offer this month to earn 10% more Miles & More miles and receive a 20% discount when you purchase a Prestige membership. ASMALLWORLD bills itself as a social network for travel that provides a bunch of perks and benefits when you join.
The welcome bonus miles
The welcome bonus for purchasing a Prestige Membership with ASMALLWORLD has been increased by 25,000 miles to 275,000 miles until October 31, 2024! Typically the welcome bonus for ASMALLWORLD Prestige Membership is 250,000 miles with a cost of 5,490 EUR
The cost to purchase ASMALLWORLD Prestige Membership with this promotion is discounted by 20% which puts the purchase prices at 4,490 EUR and with it you don’t just receive the miles. You’ll receive elite status with several hotel loyalty programs, Priority Pass airport lounge membership with free visits and more.
Click here for more details and to purchase a Prestige membership
Value in the miles alone
If we look at the 275,000 miles alone and don’t take into account the other benefits, you are buying the miles at ~1.63 EUR cents each (~2.44 C$ Cents each). Seeing that you can get 275,000 miles in one shot and begin redeeming right away this can be a very lucrative deal for business or first class flights.
For example, if we take the monthly Mileage Bargain offers provided by Miles & More, there are typically dozens of routes you can fly between North America and Europe for only 55,000 miles round trip in business class. That means you could potentially buy five round trip business class tickets for only 4,490 EUR or ~C$6715. Paying cash for those same five business class trips would probably cost at least two to three times that, if not more.
NOTE: Each business class award ticket with Miles & More will incur fees of up to C$2,500 per ticket. So with this deal you would be paying upwards of ~C$3,800 per ticket. Be sure to compare this to what the cash price is for those same business class tickets. If the cash prices are higher then this is good way to save on those flights.
Another potential benefit of buying the miles via this membership is that you open up much earlier access to Lufthansa First Class awards. When you use other airline programs like Aeroplan or LifeMiles those programs typically only have access to LH First about two weeks prior to the actual flight departure. When you choose to redeem Miles & More miles you can book LH First to as far out as the schedule allows, which is almost one year! FYI round trip First Class flights between North America and Europe run 182,000 miles so you would still have enough miles left over for two business class Mileage Bargain redemptions.
And that covers the mileage bonus but it doesn’t end there when you purchase an ASMALLWORLD Prestige membership. You also receive the following benefits:
Priority Pass Membership with 8 free lounge visits
A change to the offering this month sees the lounge access membership moving from DragonPass Prestige with unlimited visits to Priority Pass with 8 free lounge visits. At USD35 per visit and the Priority Pass membership available for US$69, this benefit is worth US$349.
Hilton Honors Gold Status + Fast Track to status
New to ASMALLWORLD is 6 months of Hilton Honors Gold Elite status plus a fast track offer that if Stay 12 nights at Hilton hotels within the first 120 days you’ll be upgraded to Hilton Honors Diamond status for a full year!
GHA Discovery Titanium Status
This is the top elite status level for GHA (Global Hotel Alliance) Discovery which is the hotel frequent guest program for 800+ luxury hotels from 40+ brands worldwide. GHA Discovery Titanium status provides the following:
- Double room upgrades (based on availability)
- Early check-in (based on availability)
- Late check-out (based on availability)
- Welcome amenity
- Status sharing
- and more
GHA Discovery Titanium status typically requires 30 nights or $15,000 spending with three brands to achieve.
Jumeirah One Gold Status
This is the second highest elite level for Jumeirah Hotels and it provides the following:
- 50% bonus points
- Complimentary 5th Redemption Night
- Complimentary Silver Membership for a companion
- Late Check-out
- Welcome amenity
- Complimentary breakfast
- Daily free mini bar (soft drinks)
- and more
Jumeirah One Gold status typically requires 30,000 tier points ($15,000 in spending) to achieve.
Sixt Platinum Status
You will also receive Sixt Platinum status which normally requires 10 rentals with the company. Platinum status provides:
- Exclusive counter and parking
- Free upgrade upon availability
- Up to 15% discount
Luxury Hotel Benefits
ASMALLWORLD also provides hotel perks when you book with them. They are a Virtuoso, Hyatt Prive and Impresario agent which means you can receive room upgrades, daily breakfast, hotel credits and much more when you book with them.
The World’s Finest Clubs
ASMALLWORLD membership gives you free access to “The World Finest Clubs”. This is a membership based program to give you VIP access (basically skip the line) to access night clubs, beach clubs and other entertainment venues around the world.
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And finally you become part of the ASMALLWORLD community which is a social network of people who like to travel, dine and more! ASMALLWORLD receives access to over 1,000 events yearly including dining events, sporting events and more.
Here is an event in Toronto for this month:
And some examples of events happening around the world this month:
Membership counts as a travel purchase
ASMALLWORLD is now classified as a travel-based business (MCC: “Travel Agencies, Tour Operators 4722”), so you can take advantage of accelerated earn rates for travel on cards like the American Express Gold Rewards Card, The Platinum Card from American Express, or the BMO AscendTM World Elite®* Mastercard®* (although this would eat up a big chunk of the $15,000 annual cap on travel on the BMO card!)
Wrapping it up
Purchasing a prestige membership with ASMALLWORLD is a pretty big outlay at ~C$6,715 and I would only recommend it if you can afford it – but it is an outlay that can be well worth it. The savings and value it can provide can be worth many times that price especially when redeeming the miles for a Miles & More Mileage Bargains flight or for Lufthansa First Class. And then you have all the additional benefits that come with the membership which are the icing on the cake.
Click here for more details and to purchase a Prestige membership
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Images via ASMALLWORLD & Lufthansa