Originally Posted by
VickiSoCal
My husband has not stayed in a FS hotel in NYC, DC, Philly, Boston, etc in a year except for a couple of conference rates. They exceed his company's max rate per night. I guess other comapnies are will to pay for it, but his is not. With rates going up the way they have I'm not surprised redemption rates have gone up accordingly.
I'm in the same boat. We always have corp rates, however once we exceed the number of rooms they set aside for us the rate jumps and becomes out of policy. With those corp rates we generally pay a significantly reduced rate based on the market, thus we earn less.
Also with high rates in the Philly/Boston/DC/NYC/Chicago ($250+) you are correct that more people likely redeem points in these markets.