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To arrive at this, we analyzed the cost of award nights in both United States Dollars (USD) and points.

The figure below provides a general distribution of the cost of an award night.

In March 2014 Club Carlson introduced a new top - tier in its program which immediately raised the cost of an award night (at one of the better hotels) from 50,000 to 70,000 points per night — a staggering 40 % price increase!

... which shows that if you buy Starpoints at 1.75 cents each this would be the cost of an award night at each category:

I know this hotel reasonably well and I can't remember the last time that I saw a night available for 40,000 points so, for the purposes of this calculation, I'm going to use 45,000 points as the cost of an award night.

The Ritz - Carlton award chart is perfectly linear — the cost of an award night goes up in cost by 10,000 points per tier — so there are no specific category moves which would see a property's award cost go up or down by more than another's.

The Marriott Rewards chart is mostly linear in nature — the cost of an award night goes up in cost by 5,000 points per category (between Cat 1 and Cat 2 the increase is smaller)-- so, unlike Starwood's chart, there are no specific category moves which would see a property's award cost go up or down by more than another's.

There are a lot of positives in here and I suspect that European readers will be delighted to see the cost of an award night at a number of pretty good Middle Eastern properties coming down.

I always recommend that readers find out the cost of a night at the properties they would like to visit (at the time of year they would like to travel) and then compare that cost to the cost of an award night paid for with points purchased in this sale.

Hyatt Gold Passport has announced that, from 1 August 2016, 106 of its hotels will be moving up or down in Gold Passport category meaning that 106 Hyatt hotels will see the cost of an award night change on that date.

As you can see from the chart, elite status has a large effect on the cost of an award night.

This would mean raising the cost of award nights in Category 6 from 22,000 points to about 25,000.

Not exact matches

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On the hotel side of things, you often can expect the co-branded credit cards to provide at least mid-tier elite status that may get you late checkout or a room upgrade, and the best ones even give you an annual award night that can offset the cost of the annual fee!

Plus, since the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville is just a Category 2 property, I could opt to book a room using the points + cash rate of 4,000 points + $ 55 instead of a full - out award night costing 8,000 points and still receive credit toward the promotion for our stay.

While it's possible to maximize value further and take advantage of the 10 % Redemption Bonus right away by booking flights and splitting hotel nights into separate bookings over the course of a few days, we'd keep things simple in this case by recommending Tiffany's husband apply his bonus toward the taxes and fees on the Alaska award bookings, wiping out these costs entirely, and having Tiffany apply her bonus toward the total hotel booking at Hotels.com.

Contrast that to some other Hilton properties at the top end of the award chart that cost 95,000 points per night, and you can see how Egypt is a huge value on points.

As faithful readers know, in the next few days the Club Carlson program will undergo two catastrophic devaluations: co-branded credit card holders will lose the free last night on award reservations of two or more nights; and a vast swath of Club Carlson's lame mid-tier properties are being bumped up to their highest rewards category, and will cost 70,000 Gold Points per night.

Fortunately, if you want to redeem at a hotel that costs more than your free night, you can choose the pay the difference in cash rather than leave money on the table or be forced to hunt for one where you could use the exact value of the award.

I got a lot of positive (and some negative) feedback for my Bluebird / Chase Ink Award Cost Chart post, so I decided to do it again for one of my other favorite cards: the SPG Amex card.The Amex SPG... [Read more...] about The Bluebird / SPG Reward Night Cost Chart

Taking a 5 night stay checking in on 2 May as an example this is how the cost of the award would work out under the original wording / rules:

19 properties are moving categories with 15 properties seeing the price of award nights increase and 4 properties seeing the cost fall.

As of 30 March 2016, 24 Hilton properties will cost more HHonors points for an award night while 14 properties will require fewer points — this is a comparatively tame set of changes.

Hilton HHonors isn't my favorite hotel rewards program because it links the number of points you need for an award night to the cost of a room on that particular night (more or less).....

None of the hotels is, as yet, bookable with Starpoints and none appears to have been given a Starwood Category rating so it's hard to say how much award nights will eventually cost.

UPDATE 8 May 2016: The full list of properties where award nights will cost you more has now been taken down by IHG but the big / more important changes are discussed below.

This credit card effectively meant that a 2 - night weekend break at a Club Carlson property never cost me more than the price of a single award night....

Free Nights Starpoints ® redeemed for a Free Night Award include the cost of a standard room and applicable taxes only.

The big devaluations that Carlson put through its loyalty program last year saw a very large number of properties increase in award night cost — specifically from 50,000 to 70,000 Gold Points per night.

This means devaluing the currency to require more points per award night if the cost of the hotels we use them for goes up or if there are too many points in circulation.

Top - tier Hyatt Properties cost 30,000 points / night so if you wanted to use this promotion to book an award night at one of these it would cost you approximately $ 513.

Even if you were to redeem for a mid to upper - level Starwood hotel (of which there are quite a few good ones), an award redemption would cost 12,000 — 20,000 Starpoints which would work out at $ 315 — $ 525 / night — and you can easily book nights for less than that.

That's enough for a free night award at any Category 6 property (there are only a small number of Category 7 hotels that cost 30,000 points per night).

This instant award averages in value depending upon the cost of your first night so can it can range on average from $ 99 to $ 450, $ 600 or more.

I'm doing this without looking at the number of award nights booked in each category, the cost of paying hotels for those nights (which does not necessarily reflect their published rates), and all the other sources of revenue for the loyalty program (e.g., issuing points through credit cards).

These are the 12 properties at which an award night will cost 70,000 points from tomorrow (an increase of over 16 %):

If Hilton was upping the cost of the remaining award nights to the maximum then the award would be pricing up at well over 200,000 points.

However, in my analysis of SPG Nights and Flights awards, I described how — if you keep the cost of the free nights the same as a normal redemption — it is equivalent to getting a discount on the miles.

The easiest way to look a this is to see how much it would cost to buy enough points for an award night at, for example, one of the top Hyatt properties around the world.

A property I know very well, the Category 5 Andaz West Hollywood would cost 20,000 points for an award night so the minimum number of points you would have to purchase for a free night would be 16,000......

While the brand isn't flawless by any means and while room rates can be high, the fact that the most an award night can cost you is 30,000 points (at the time of writing) makes these properties great for award redemptions.

The key is to getting cheap IHG Rewards points is to select a hotel that allows you to use cash in lieu of 10,000 points and you'll usually find this option where an award night costs 20,000 points (category 3 properties).

If you're looking to buy points to buy an award outright you need to compare the cost to buy enough points for an award night vs the cash cost of the same room on the same date.

4 nights in 90 days isn't really that much of an ask and when you factor in that award night stays count for this promotion this doesn't need to cost you much.

With most of the acceptable / good Club Carlson hotels now costing 70,000 points for an award night you would have to spend $ 1,490 during the promotion period to get a «free night» at one of those properties....

The Andaz 5th Avenue is one of Hyatt's Category 6 hotels so, with awards cost 25,000 points / night, our three night stay set us back 75,000 Hyatt Gold Points.

I stopped being a fan of Club Carlson after it raised the cost of top - tier awards by 40 %, put most of the hotels I'd like to stay at in the top - tier category and then removed my free 2nd night benefit that came with my Club Carlson Visa...... but I don't hold a grudge