Originally Posted by
wjb123
My wife and I combined accounts or all airline miles and hotel points just passed 5 million total. We do both travel for business about once a month and play the cc game. We have been burning around 500k per year the last few years and will look to do the same or more this year.
Me - 3.4 million
Wife - 1.6 million
Hotel points (with the exception of SPG) are typically valued quite differently than airline miles, and so IMHO
it makes no sense to combine hotel points and airline miles all into one total. Someone who has 4.8 million hotel points and 200,000 legacy airline miles has a much lower value of redemption than someone who has 200,000 hotel points and 4.8 million miles.
100000 miles can be redeemed for a trip that would cost $5000 cash. 100000 hotel points in a program like Marriott or Hilton is more likely to get you just 2 or 3 nights at $300++ cash hotels.
Or for another analogy, it's like having a mix of US Dollars and Mexican Pesos and saying you have XXXXXX currency units (by adding the dollars and pesos together without converting at the 1:13ish conversion rate).