Originally Posted by
andymo99
If you go with an AA card, you'll rack up lifetime platinum status in year 2. Not sure how much that is worth to the OP, though.
But you can use AA miles for hotels all over creation. The redemption rate isn't the greatest and you do have to pick up some taxes, but with 1,000,000 miles per year who cares. They have a pretty good selection of available hotels around the world.