Originally Posted by
toomanybooks
I would not consider .4 cents a good value for CC points.
If you get the Club Carlson credit card, the last night on a multiple night redemption is free. Highly recommended and works great; with 5x on all spend, it's my #1 card now.
So only 75K for 2 nights. That is a decent deal for Blu Chicago.
Might look at Hotwire, though. My brother once got the Sheraton (on the river) surprisingly cheap on July 4. With websites like
www.biddingfortravel.com you can often uniquely ID the hotel.
Thanks for the info & suggestion. A new credit card isn't in the sights for us since this is the first time in 4 years that I'm looking at booking a Club Carlson property. Other than doing 2 bookings 2 years ago just to get points, I've never really preferred or looked for Carlson properties. So we wouldn't get much use out of the CC other than this one stay.
For the Radisson Blu, its 75k points/night, so 150k points for 2 nights. Price of the property for those two nights is $275/night so thats how I got the 0.4CPM calculation.
I'm thinking I'll just book a Marriott property for the 4th weekend and do what I can to string along my Carlson points until I can book a Radisson Blu in Paris (or similar aspirational redemption).