Originally Posted by mahasamatman

The big problem for us is that we already have a lot of travel planned, but there just aren't resorts in most of the places we're traveling. In the few places that do have resorts, we'd basically be swapping a Cash&Points award (mostly Cat 3 and 4 properties) for a FRN, so I'm basically valuing FRN at around 5,000 points each. If airfares ever drop to Hawaii, a weekend is a possibility, but when they want $800 or more to get from SFO to Hawaii, it's much harder to justify.