Originally Posted by
hindukid
...If you did something like 4 first class tickets to Europe or Asia and 14 nights in a high end starwood resort that would cost you in the range of 640,000 points. So you can blow a lot of points on one trip. Of course the retail value of that is about $50,000 so its not a bad return.
The retail value is not relevant, the monetary value is equal to how much the OP would spend (in cash) on such a vacation.