Originally Posted by
AMRivlin
It would be 4* and 5* destination hotels. Most are Conde nast Gold / premium destinations.
That makes the price more reasonable. But some of those destination hotels are also affiliated with other programs (the Plaza, for example, is a Fairmont hotel, IIRC; Hilton has the Waldorf=Astoria collection, etc.), so you may yet be able to improve your outlays.