Originally Posted by
Happy
I think a broad based comparison is almost meaningless because the value lies in HOW you use your points at WHERE.
Furthermore, it also lies in how you EARN your points.
Hilton is the easiest program to earn lots of points
without doing
paid stays, because it's the only one I know of with a
highly churnable credit card for oodles of points (for those based in the US, at least).
However, Hilton's promotions on paid stays are rarely great, so if you have to earn your points only on stays (say, because of business travel), then you might look at it totally differently than someone who's mostly earning their HHonors points in other ways.