A stay in a place like St. Regis New York, a category 7 property, where an SPG free night will set you back 30,000
points for a hotel stay valued at USD $ 877 per night.
Not exact matches
With generic travel cards, you can redeem your
points for cash back, flights,
hotel stays or statement credits, but you get the best
value for travel - related purchases.
At 2.1 cents per
point, only the Starwood Preferred Guest Program has a higher
value for points being used toward free
stays at
hotels.
All guests of The Stafford London are eligible to enroll in the iPrefer
hotel rewards program, which extends
points redeemable
for cash -
value Reward Certificates, elite status, and special benefits such as complimentary internet to members upon every
stay at more than 550 participating Preferred
Hotels & Resorts locations worldwide.
But when
points and miles are redeemed strategically
for high
value award flights and luxury
hotel stays, then it is often possible to receive three to five cents in
value per
point, which is much better than the best cash back reward cards.
The average
point value for the Wyndham Rewards when used
for hotel stays is around 1 cent per
point, though your actual rate can vary pretty wildly.
Yes - MileagePlus
values all of its
hotel partners and will continue to offer our members the option to earn miles
for their
hotel stays or to transfer their
hotel points into MileagePlus miles.
NerdWallet
values IHG
points redeemed
for IHG
hotel stays at 0.7 cents each, much more than when redeemed
for airline miles or gift cards.
It would take approximately $ 17,000 + in annual spending to make up
for this $ 116 deficit in
value (assuming a $ 100
hotel stay, plus the $ 16 difference in annual fees), year - to - year - that is the
point at which the 2.4 % rewards rate of the SPG beats out the 1.5 % rate users get from gas station, restaurant, and grocery spending.
You can also receive tremendous
value from your
hotel points when you are able to redeem them
for stays at some luxury properties or
for stays during high - demand periods.
While you can get some terrific
value from using Starpoints
for hotel stays at properties like the W Hong Kong and the St. Regis Bal Harbour, transferring
points to airlines can be quite lucrative, especially when you factor in the 5,000 - mile bonus
for every 20,000
points you transfer.
Furthermore, the using your Amtrak
points to pay
for Starwood
hotel stays is also unfavorable to consumers - resulting in a per -
point value well below $ 0.01.
With generic travel cards, you can redeem your
points for cash back, flights,
hotel stays or statement credits, but you get the best
value for travel - related purchases.
One benefit of your new Marriott Rewards Premier Plus account is an Anniversary Free Night Award e-certificate every year after your account anniversary, valid
for a one night
hotel stay at a property with a redemption level at or under 35,000
points, instead of the category 1 - 4
hotel e-certificate
valued up to 20,000
points you received on your Marriott Rewards account.
Qantas
Hotels: The ability to use
Points Plus Pay is subject to meeting the minimum points requierment of 5,000 Qantas Points; Qantas Frequent Flyer members will earn 3 Qantas Points per A$ 1 value for all hotel stays, except Classic Hotel Rewards, booked at qanta
Points Plus Pay is subject to meeting the minimum
points requierment of 5,000 Qantas Points; Qantas Frequent Flyer members will earn 3 Qantas Points per A$ 1 value for all hotel stays, except Classic Hotel Rewards, booked at qanta
points requierment of 5,000 Qantas
Points; Qantas Frequent Flyer members will earn 3 Qantas Points per A$ 1 value for all hotel stays, except Classic Hotel Rewards, booked at qanta
Points; Qantas Frequent Flyer members will earn 3 Qantas
Points per A$ 1 value for all hotel stays, except Classic Hotel Rewards, booked at qanta
Points per A$ 1
value for all
hotel stays, except Classic Hotel Rewards, booked at qantas
hotel stays, except Classic
Hotel Rewards, booked at qantas
Hotel Rewards, booked at qantas.com.
For someone
staying in IHG
hotels frequently, this will absolutely allow you to earn more
points and
value than any other travel rewards card.
Otherwise, use
hotel points for hotel award
stays to get much more
value out of them.
These are basically low category
hotels and aren't very expensive, so even though they may offer good
value for your Hyatt
points, you may want to save yours
for some high - end luxury
stay.
Tip # 2: You can redeem your SPG Starpoints
for hotel nights at a pretty good
value of over $ 0.02 per
point for most
stays.
You may be able to get more
value out of your rewards
points, though, if you redeem your
points for stays in pricier cities, such as New York City or San Francisco, or if you choose a luxury
hotel.
If you're
staying at non-chain
hotels, or
hotels where you don't collect that chain's loyalty
points, and you redeem your miles
for high -
value awards, like intercontinental premium cabin awards, you'll get more
value by booking through PointsHound than through a traditional cashback portal.
For all that cash back rewards may be the simplest, travel rewards redeemed for flights, hotel stays, and other travel expenses will often offer a better per - point val
For all that cash back rewards may be the simplest, travel rewards redeemed
for flights, hotel stays, and other travel expenses will often offer a better per - point val
for flights,
hotel stays, and other travel expenses will often offer a better per -
point value.
You can also receive tremendous
value from your
hotel points when you are able to redeem them
for stays at some luxury properties or
for stays during high - demand periods.
Choice Privileges Rewards
points have some annoying limitations to them but at ~ 0.48 cents each they're pretty cheap and, even if you can use them
for hotel stay, they may be good
value for conversion to airline miles if a good conversion bonus comes up later in the year.
If before I would have used 22,000
points for a
hotel that I
valued at $ 374, and now Hyatt wants 25,000
points, they are implying that I should increase the
value I assign to that
stay to $ 425.
Since Fairmont
hotel rooms come at a premium, we estimate a very high
value for this free night certificate — up to 150,000
points, depending on where you book your
stay.
One method that I've seen people use to
value their
hotel points is to find the average price charged by one of the top / aspirational properties (that they'd like to
stay at) and then divide that by the number of
points needed
for an award night at that
hotel.
If you're not really going to use the Priority Pass membership, if you rarely
stay at
hotels for more than 2 - 3 nights at a time and if you don't really rack up ThankYou
points on the bonus categories on offer then you're not someone who's going to maximise the
value of this card
Kaanapali Beach
Hotel • «Cultural Heritage Odyssey Award» for the hotel's music CD, E Hoomau I Ka Pookela Travel Industry Association of America, 2000 • «Best Places to Stay Gold List» — Condé Nast Traveler, 2000 • «Best Value Hotel» No. 1 in Hawai'i and No. 3 in the World — Travel + Leisure, 1998 • «The Most Hawaiian Hotel» — The Waiaha Foundation, 1995 • Designation by President George Bush as being the 648th Point of Light for excellence in volunteerism; the only hotel in the nation to be so recognized,
Hotel • «Cultural Heritage Odyssey Award»
for the
hotel's music CD, E Hoomau I Ka Pookela Travel Industry Association of America, 2000 • «Best Places to Stay Gold List» — Condé Nast Traveler, 2000 • «Best Value Hotel» No. 1 in Hawai'i and No. 3 in the World — Travel + Leisure, 1998 • «The Most Hawaiian Hotel» — The Waiaha Foundation, 1995 • Designation by President George Bush as being the 648th Point of Light for excellence in volunteerism; the only hotel in the nation to be so recognized,
hotel's music CD, E Hoomau I Ka Pookela Travel Industry Association of America, 2000 • «Best Places to
Stay Gold List» — Condé Nast Traveler, 2000 • «Best
Value Hotel» No. 1 in Hawai'i and No. 3 in the World — Travel + Leisure, 1998 • «The Most Hawaiian Hotel» — The Waiaha Foundation, 1995 • Designation by President George Bush as being the 648th Point of Light for excellence in volunteerism; the only hotel in the nation to be so recognized,
Hotel» No. 1 in Hawai'i and No. 3 in the World — Travel + Leisure, 1998 • «The Most Hawaiian
Hotel» — The Waiaha Foundation, 1995 • Designation by President George Bush as being the 648th Point of Light for excellence in volunteerism; the only hotel in the nation to be so recognized,
Hotel» — The Waiaha Foundation, 1995 • Designation by President George Bush as being the 648th
Point of Light
for excellence in volunteerism; the only
hotel in the nation to be so recognized,
hotel in the nation to be so recognized, 1992
I
stayed at the Grosvenor House
Hotel a few years ago and enjoyed its location near the Dubai Marina so, now that award nights can be booked there
for as little as 12,000
points per night, I can definitely see myself returning — that»; s pretty good
value... especially if you have SPG Platinum status.
Unlike Starpoints (currently on sale at a 30 % discount) IHG Rewards
Points aren't at all versatile and the only really way to get
value out of them is to use them
for hotel stays.
Not sure I would actually pay the
value of these flights and the
hotel stay for this trip, but it's certainly a good use of
points!
At the same time, if you're the type of traveler that rarely
stays in one place
for four or more nights or perhaps exclusively book
hotels with
points then this perk may not bring you much
value and could even be worthless.
Instead of a fixed amount of
points for one night at a
hotel (giving you the chance to find amazing
value when you
stay in high season at one of the top properties, regardless of the cash price), your
points translate into cash vouchers, giving you EUR40 of
value per 2,000
points.
Accor also runs frequent promotions, sometimes to earn bonus
points and sometimes with large discounts, making them very affordable across categories — I've
stayed at ibis
hotels in Asia
for under $ 30 and at luxury Sofitel
for little over $ 100 — in each case some of the best
value at those destinations!
I was looking at
hotels for my upcoming
stay in chennai, India, where you normally tend to get good
value for your
points including Marriott and Hilton, IHG
point redemption turned out to be the worst.
You're ready to book a
hotel stay and have confirmed award availability
for your dates and the cash
value of the
stay is more than the cost to buy the
points needed to book the
stay.
Hotel loyalty programs undergo
point value changes —
Hotels are increasing the amount of travel reward credit card
points needed
for free
stays.
For example, that was the inspiration for my imputed redemption value tables, which I use whenever I have to decide whether to book hotel stays with cash or with poin
For example, that was the inspiration
for my imputed redemption value tables, which I use whenever I have to decide whether to book hotel stays with cash or with poin
for my imputed redemption
value tables, which I use whenever I have to decide whether to book
hotel stays with cash or with
points.
Measuring relative
value of
points redeemed
for hotel stays is much easier, however, as the differences between each partner are more obvious.
All guests of Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain are eligible to enroll in the iPrefer guest loyalty program, which extends
points redeemable
for cash -
value Reward Certificates, elite status, and special benefits such as complimentary Internet to members upon every
stay at more than 500 participating Preferred
Hotel Group locations worldwide.
In my case, after spending a lot more nights with Accor
Hotels and achieving Platinum in Accor's LeClub, my offer
for 2017 is great: A single night
stay in January paid with my IHG Rewards Club MaterCard and a
point redemption will net me 31,000
points, a
value of $ 186!
Exchanging your
points for cash is usually the least efficient use, while airline tickets,
hotel stays and electronics gadgets offer a higher
value.
Another good
value option are the «fifth night free awards» — so you can redeem a 5 - night
stay at a category 1
hotel for only 20,000
points (4 × 5,000), making long
stays more valuable!
• Marriott Rewards members who register
for this promotion by November 30, 2017 will earn one (1) free night award at a category 1 - 5
hotel (
value of standard free night award ranges from 7,500
points for Category 1
hotels to 25,000
points for Category 5
hotels) after two paid
stays * made between September 12, 2017 and January 15, 2018, at participating Marriott ® properties.
The HoJo participates in Wyndham Rewards, rated the best
value hotel rewards program and I did earn Wyndham Rewards
points for my
stay.
You can check on a
hotel that you have in mind with the Hilton Honors Calculator But because Hilton is eliminating award charts and categories, it will also make it much easier to adjust the
points needed (aka devaluate them) until they also reflect a
value of 04 - 0.5 ct / pt, eliminating great
value options at the lower end of the Hilton brands, like the Hilton Garden Inn on Bali where I
stayed for 5,000
points per night when the rate was $ 87 / night a 1.7 ct / pt
value or the Doubletree Kuala Lumpur where I paid 10,000 pt / night instead of $ 127 / night, a 1.27 ct / pt
value.
While the 75,000
points sign - up bonus certainly justifies paying the $ 85 annual fee
for the second year, the ongoing
value of the card depends on how much you use it and whether you
stay at the Marriott family of
hotels.
We all want to receive the most
value from our rewards, but it also seems weird to pay cash
for something (such as flights,
hotel stays or gift cards) that you could acquire by redeeming
points.
On longer
stays, choosing to redeem your free night certificates
for «maximum
value» costs an additional 10,000
points per night, unless you're interested in moving between
hotels during your
stay.