Converting Virgin airmiles to cash

Ph0en1x

I used to do a lot of travelling on business and accumulated just over 200,000 Virgin airmiles.

I think it's unlikely that I'll do much flying in the future so I'm looking for ways to cash them in.

Virgin allow you to cash them in for experience days but there's not a lot on offer that I like the look of.

I could cash them in at Greggs but there's a limit to how many sausage rolls I can eat.

I could cash them in for wine but I'd have to pay shipping costs so it's not a good rate of return.

I can covert Virgin miles to Nectar points by going via IHG and Avio accounts which would get me about £320 - This doesn't seem a very good conversion rate.

Do any of you know of more cost effective ways to convert the miles into cash?

Sandtree

Ph0en1x said:

I used to do a lot of travelling on business and accumulated just over 200,000 Virgin airmiles.

I think it's unlikely that I'll do much flying in the future so I'm looking for ways to cash them in.

Virgin allow you to cash them in for experience days but there's not a lot on offer that I like the look of.

I could cash them in at Greggs but there's a limit to how many sausage rolls I can eat.

I could cash them in for wine but I'd have to pay shipping costs so it's not a good rate of return.

I can covert Virgin miles to Nectar points by going via IHG and Avio accounts which would get me about £320 - This doesn't seem a very good conversion rate.

Do any of you know of more cost effective ways to convert the miles into cash?

Flying with them in PE or UC will be the best return on them and given where VS fly to you wont need many return tickets to exhaust all of them... a return LHR to JFK in US is 95,000 and so assuming you'd be travelling with someone then that's basically them all gone in one booking.

If you want cash then I'd be surprised if you get a route that gets much more than £320.