<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Shareholder:
Given your balance, I am quite pleased to see you did not redeem your points earlier this year when they would have been worth 30% more.</font>
Why would that pleas you?
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">You might just as well let your devalued accounts lapse, given your interest in making any use of the points. In a whole year, it is curious that you've not been able to make a single stay at a Hilton.</font>
I ammased those points by staying in Hilton properties while traveling for business. The past year I've had a long term project so got an apartment rather than checking in and out of the same hotel for 8 months every week, getting a different room every week, etc. Since I've been traveling to the same location the whole time, having an apartment to relax in (and spend an occasional weekend in), and laundry facilities, etc. far outweights any points I might earn....
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">However, just curious why you ever bothered to amass all these points if you have no interest in using them, or staying at Hiltons?</font>
I think it's obvious that if I had no interest in using them, I wouldn't have posted my questions. The fact is that I *do* have an interest in using them. The three times I tried to use them after losing diamond status I was told the hotel in question didn't have any rooms available to book with points (capacity controls). This is one thing that's kept me in Starwood properties when they're available and not tremendously more inconvenient than Hilton.
But I have had occastion to stay at Hilton properties enough in the past, and will likely do so in the future. Unfortunately work is keeping me too busy to take a vacation and will likely continue to be this way through April, which is past the point when the points will expire....