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Jul 7, 2011 | 11:52 am

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Originally Posted by Joshua

In essence, I save about $25 - $50 worth of gas/car miles if I stay in a local hotel, so I have a great deal of flexibility.

Are you saying that you can personally pay for a hotel room, to save $25-50 of travel costs?

If so, it will probably be very hard to find a loyalty program with points accrual high enough to offset the additional $50-75 of spend to stay in the hotel.

You might be able to break even using priceline and get the benefit of the good night's sleep.

Or is someone else paying for this hotel room?

EDIT: Or maybe Choice, Wyndham, and/or Best Western would have cheap enough properties to earn enough on their promotions to make it worthwhile.

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