Eurobonus Millionaire? Finally.. for like 5 minutes.
This week we received our extremely hard earned 1,000,000 SAS points per person. We were millionaires! For about 5 minutes. Many of you asked on TikTok what we planned to do with the miles once we received them (and there were doubts!), so let me share with you our first points purchases and their values.
First, as requested, evidence.
We received this email nearly 18 hours after receiving the points, so by then 200,000 were long gone:
The email from SAS
Here are my points within the account - 1.013M to be exact
Finally, here are my husband’s points - the exact same amount as I have, as it should be:
Time to spend, yeah?
SAS linked us to this site to learn “how to spend” these points. Let me tell you, if I didn’t already know how to spend a million SAS points well, I would not have spent $2.7k in flights and $300 in hotels per person, spent thousands of Marriott and Hyatt and AA points, and taken nearly 30 flights around the globe, experiencing excruciating hip and calf pain.. for nothing.
Onto the spending!
As you are all now well aware, we’re moving to Portugal in March, so we needed a good way to get back and forth from the EU to the US, where my main business still needs me <51% of the time (we have to stay in PT 50%+ days of the year to keep our PR), so business flights were needed urgently.
Here is the tool I used to find availability. I doubt it’s comprehensive, since others were finding BKK-CPH routes at the same time that this tool only showed US-EU availability (and vice versa), but it was good enough for me. I’m now booked out through EOY 2024.
Calculating CPP can be a bit difficult, because the round trip flights are usually cheaper than the one ways, but so far we’ve spent:
50,000 points CPH-ORD, $5,404.00
50,000 points ORD-CPH, $7575.00
50,000 points CPH-EWR, $5,403.00
50,000 points ORD-CPH, $7925.00
If you want to call the CPP as it is, the average is 13.15 cents per point, meaning the million points is worth nearly $131,500 in value. However, indirect routes and roundtrips are cheaper than the above, so realistically, the next best alternative in this case would make the points worth about $25,000 in total.
Still worth the trip(s) around the world!
Hoping to snag at least one trip to Asia or back in late 2025 / early 2026, and open to partner awards, too, but I wanted to make sure to snag some 50k point business class tickets before everyone else received their millions, just in case inventory plummeted.
Let me know if you have any ideas for how to spend the rest.
My biggest question is still: How many Eurobonus Millionaires did SAS mint through this challenge?
Tbd, I guess.
