Originally Posted by
lkar
That's the right page. Look under "hotels + air." It shows, for example, you can get 7 nights at a category 5, plus 120k miles on various airlines, for 270k marriot points.
That is 1:1 under the following logic -- 7 nights at a category 5 hotel is a 150k redemption. 150k plus 120k equals 270k.
Ah, okay. So you basically have to use the points on a 7 night vacation to get the true 1:1 conversion. That lowers the value due to loss of flexibility but is still a great deal if you actually want to use 7 nights to begin with.