<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by milesrus:
Even with devaluation you must consider that for every stay you get the car rental of 250, 500 frequent flyer miles that equals 1000 Honors points and 500 points for booking online. That is an extra 1750 points per stay more than Marriott or Starwood gives. </font>
Are you taking into account the fact that the scaling is different in HH and SPG? Just the 500 point booking online bonus for SPG blows HH's 1750 points away given the awards on SPG are 3k-10k per night. You have to normalize the scale before comparison. Don't know about Marriott.