We did an India trip last May. Hotels in India and throughout Asia are known for their personal service. We stayed at 3 different Taj properties and were treated like royalty at every property.
If you have AA miles, you can use them for redeeming hotel nights at
www.useaamiles.com . Normally, I would never think about using AA miles for anything but air travel, we found some great hotel redemption values. For some properties, multi-night stays required less points per night than booking 1-night stays. Also, AA Elite status also showed a discounted rate than the standard number of miles.
Interesting. We have 800K AA miles and are building more on our quest to get my wife's lifetime gold status on AA. I'll look into that.
Thanks.