I'm all about the points. During the course of the promotion, I noticed that a very nice local courtyard was running a weekend rate of $99 with a bonus of 2500 points. So. . .I'm figuring that of my 25 stays, 11 will be Friday or Saturday night stays at the Courtyard. This is an additional 27,500 points on top of the 50,000 awarded for the stays alone.

Its great to find these point bonuses. A one night stay at the Blackstone is getting me a 5000 point bonus in January. A week later, a two night stay at a vacation club in Orlando (rate under $100 a night) is getting me a 10,000 point bonus. A local Renaissance last spring was giving on a weekend stay not only a 7,500 point bonus, but a liberal credit against food purchases - plus a free breakfast.

The megabonus promotion, platinum bonuses, credit card bonuses, and the random property point bonuses seem to make it possible to stay even with point "deflation" - or, maybe, there's a correlation between the few. If it was harder to make points, perhaps redemption awards would have remained more constant.