Originally Posted by
azepine00
...the problem is that most decent and easily accessible city properties (Paris, Tokyo, New York, London, Hong Kong, Rome etc etc)...
Most? Nice list of cities, but that's
your list. My list might include the following, where one can still find reward rooms at 20K-50K for a good part of the year:
Dubrovnik
Krakow
Warsaw
Munich
Venice
Florence
Moscow
Prague
Barcelona
Istanbul
This is only Europe and I've not done any sort of exhaustive search (see the "Sweet Spot" thread). Points & $ awards seem to be at 40% of standard redemption rates at a lot (most?) properties and can be a very good deal.
I'm not happy about the devaluation, particularly at my favorite Conrads in Asia, but as long as I can continue to find decent redemption rates at properties I'm likely to visit, I'm not abandoning Hilton.