MileKing, I did a comparison of Starwood vs Marriott from the perspective of airline miles.

Starwood: 3 miles per dollar (if Gold) and then 25% bonus (for 5K bonus on transfer of 20K miles) so 3.75 miles per dollar.

Marriott (with the changes): 10 hotel points per dollar plus 20-30% elite bonus, so 12-13pts per dollar, and 30,000pts->10,000 airline miles, so 4 to 4.33 miles per dollar. This would be less for Courtyard, Renaissance and Fairfield Inn since they do not qualify for the elite bonus, for them it is 3.33 miles per dollar.

But then, I plan to use hotel points mainly for hotel stays and not for airline miles.