Originally Posted by
duranza
Looking to stay in Phoenix for 3 nights as a stopover to our trip next year to Hawaii .
What time of year? Phoenix outside of winter can have extremelly cheap hotel rates, making redemption a poor value then.
Originally Posted by
duranza
Now my search is for free hotel points even with minimal spend but no annual fee.
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Hilton 5k left ( used points)
This no-annual-fee card:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/miles...nors-visa.html
can be churned repeatedly (as often as every 2.5 or 3 monhts if you can do the $1500 spend that fast). Between now and "next year" you should have time to get it several times over, and thus well over 100k HHonors points.
(But if the room rates with money are low in Phoenix at the time you're going, HHonors points would likely be an especially poor value. Perhaps use them for Hawaii itself?