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Get a 30% transfer bonus when you transfer Citi ThankYou to I Prefer.

Transfer ThankYou Points to I Prefer Hotel Rewards points and receive a 30% bonus. Offer is valid for points transfers to I Prefer points completed between 12:01 AM ET May 17, 2026, and 11:59 PM ET June 13, 2026.

As always, Citi ThankYou cards with an annual fee (Citi Strata Elite℠, Citi Strata Premier®, Prestige®, AT&T Access More) transfer at the full stated ratio – 1:2.6 in this case. All other ThankYou cards transfer at 70% of the stated value.

It’s worth noting up front that the standard transfer ratio to I Prefer from Citi as of just a few weeks ago was 1:4. Then Citi chopped it in half to 1:2. This transfer bonus to I Prefer makes it 1:2.6 – meaning it’s better than you can get now if you didn’t speculatively transfer at 1:4, but certainly not even close to what you could have gotten before the halving.

As a very rough average, I find I Prefer points to be in the 0.5 cent range. Can be 0.3 cents, can be 0.7 cents. The biggest challenge is searching availability at I Prefer. You’ll beed to be logged in, then go to Benefits > My Rewards > Nights With Points > Explore Properties. I suggest plugging the dates in so that it only shows you available properties. Else, you’ll go nuts as once you click into a property to check availability, you’ll have no way out except to start all over. Frustrating!

Tip: If the first screen showing the property shows a message that “points vary” that actually means it will never be bookable for points. Only if it shows a points per night value will it have availability.

If you get half a cent per I Prefer point in value out of this, that would be equivalent to getting 1.3 cents per Citi ThankYou point. Good but not great.

There are a lot of very nice I Prefer properties. I’d been eyeing one in Zurich with cash rates close to $1,000 a night or 150,000 I Prefer. That would be about 0.66 cents per I Prefer point and at about 58,000 ThankYou points (I’m rounding) it would be close to 1.7 cents per ThankYou point – so the value really does vary! On the other side of the value chain, I’ve seen very nice properties in cheaper areas for 30,000 points – which can also bring nice value.

In short, it’s the type of program you just need to enroll, search, and see what you find! I won’t be speculatively transferring but I will be seeing if there’s anything attractive to cause me to make a transfer at this ratio.

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