I'm not as married to the dollar value of the room I'm using the cert for. For me, what's more important is using them to get a night I wouldn't otherwise. For example, my wife and I just spent a weekend in Gettysburg on certs - the room rate was cheap, but we wouldn't have paid the approx. $200 total for the rooms otherwise, so the value of the cert for us was a free trip to Gettysburg for the weekend. We were able to spend a few days doing something fun for no more money than we would have spent on meals around home anyways. Bu I wouldn't rush to use one if you have time and you wouldn't mind paying the going rate anyways...