Originally Posted by
pinniped
Sorry...I'm going to respectfully disagree with almost everything that
99luftballoons said. This is likely the first time anyone in the history of Flyertalk has said that hotel statuses don't matter but rental car elite status rocks.
^ I'll respectfully second that respectful disagreement. The status and points have come in very handy on all sorts of business and pleasure trips, not least most of my wife's and my overseas vacations for over a decade. We never could have gone to many of the places we've visited without the hotel (and airline) points we accumulated through paid stays and credit card bonuses.