Originally Posted by
Ashguy77
Let me see what my experience shows:
*Stayed in Paris for 40000 Marriott Points at the Marriott Champs Elysee. It would have cost around $600 after the Euro conversion. Hence 1.5 cent.
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Stayed in Venice at the Hilton Venice for 50000 HHPoints, it would have cost $500 for the same hence 1c redemption value.
* Stayed at the JW Marriott in Mumbai India for 25000 Marriott Points, otherwise would have cost $330 or 1.3 cent. Btw, I have the Marriott Card and the annual category-5 cert is good towards most of the JWs in Asia
* Edit: Just checked the Venice Hotel if I had to stay in April there, cost $630 per room and else 50K points, so Hilton is 1.26 right now, not bad at all!
Hence I would say in my experience it is from 1 cent (Hilton) to (1.3-1.5) cent Marriott for me. I did not know about the Marriott Vacation Package, so now that I know I will build points towards that!
Cheers,Ash
I hate to give you this: Friend of mine have won the Hilton Venice from Priceline at $134 all-in last Summer when he took his wife for a trip to Italy.
Your HHonor point value just deflated by about 50% using the actual going out rate on the priceline win and it is not an uncommon win either!
This January they went to Los Cabos, won the Sheraton for $90 bid and $110ish all-in.
Priceline or Hotwire tend to work very well in big cities,
certain international locations, but does not work for rural areas, vicinity near national parks, and many international locations.
But when it works, the price often deflates the "rack bubble" one uses to compute point value.