Originally Posted by
BigLar
...and this is supposed to impress us?

Not at all; just saying that switching hotels
once to get triple points on the remaining nine nights is a very small price to pay (and I wouldn't need something as generous as triple points to do so).
BTW - the most recent simultaneous hotel / rental car combo-hop was in LAS during the Avis / Budget promotion for 10,049 DL miles for one-day rentals in July.