Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
MAD is also an airport, but it's obvious that paying for a hotel room with airports would make the stay prohibitively expensive. OTOH, if you can get some sort of loyalty points for shopping at MAD airport, a hotel stay might be a good way to use these points.
If one could get a room that ordinarily costs 2500 airports for 3500 starwood points, that would be an amazing redemption. That's .71 APP. I generally will do a redemption that does better than .000000014 airports per point. I realize that Spain is having some tough economic times, so my typical valuation of $200 million for an airport might be a smidge high for Iberian Peninsula transport hubs, but even so, .71 APP is outrageously good. Don't tell the bloggers. In fact, we should start using code.