Originally Posted by
mooper
If hotel points are part of your game, consider using either an
SPG Nights and Flights award or a
Marriott Travel Package as your starting point if you have/earn points in either of those hotel programs, especially if you can time the redemption with a stackable promotion like the
25% to 75% USAirways hotel point conversion bonus going on right now. I just redeemed 70K SPG points for 87,500 USAirways miles PLUS five nights at a nice Category 4 Starwood resort (~4 cents per point for this redemption, overall), as well as 270K Marriott Rewards Points for 210K USAirways miles PLUS seven nights at a nice Category 5 Marriott Resort (~2.1 CPP for this redemption, overall). Once you have the US miles in hand, you can use them for many Star Alliance flight redemptions, including some of the suggestions bound to show up in this thread. I used 55K miles (I get 5K off as a US-branded credit card holder) for a first class off-peak round trip to London next winter.
Thank you...I'll look over the plans!
The problem I find with most hotel plans is that I really only want to spend less then 75.00 for a nights stay. With Hyatt I can stay at either Hyatt place or Hyatt summerfield suites for as little as 49.00 to $75.00 and each night I generate 2500 points.
Last year I spent 64.00 average per night on 25 stays for a total cost of around 1720 with taxes. These times were used in business or weekend trips etc. This grossed me a little over 70,000 points included some bonuses. I then booked the Bali Hyatt for 5,000 points per night for a couple weeks! If I bought the room outright it would have cost well over 3,000 with taxes.
I'd love for someone to show me how I could have done better...I'm not saying I couldn't how...I just don't know how!