Most of the talk I have seen for hotel reward programs has been mostly for very high-end hotel redemptions.

I would actually to have more nights, rather than nicer hotels for my redemptions.

I am interested ideally, in a program which has a credit card bonus sign up offer, and the standard points for CC spend a normal card would have (1pt/$1 etc). The categories do not matter much to me, as most of my spending is not categorized in a way that I would get double points.

Currently I use SPG, but they seem to be lacking a bit on the lower end of their scale. Does anyone know which hotel reward program would be better?

For example, with SPG there are some incredible hotels for 20k pts a night or so, but I would much prefer 10 crappy hotel night stays for 2k pts a night.


Any advice? SPG? Hilton? Hyatt? Marriott? Any others?

Any way to use miles efficiently to get standard 2* or 3* hotels?

Thanks a bunch!

Ryan