Originally Posted by
StangGT909
Well yeah the 80,000 points thing of course stinks, and if you have your heart set a premium date sure that's a lot of points but if you want to make your points go further can't you just shop around dates to get the best deal?
I stayed last summer post de-val at the Bentley over 4th of July and it was $499 a night for a $1000 weekend and it was still 60,000 points a night.
I looked for this July and it's still 60K / night until the winter and most weekends are high $400's a night. If you want to get crazy, New Years Eve is 80,000 points vs $1499 a night.
Just one example, but I think it's pretty awesome to get a room on a premium date that's that expensive for that amount of points.
Plus if you stay 60,000 x 4 nights = 240,000 and you get 5th night free...
That works out to 48,000 per night which is less than what it was pre-deval when it was a 50,000 night hotel.
Pair the 5th night free average room requirement plus the fact that we're earning more from credit cards, I don't see how it's such a deal breaker to quit hilton.
It was 145k axon for 4 nights (36,250 per night.... even in high season) and two Axon's equaled a week long vacation (check in Saturday night, check out Sunday a week later). The five nights makes leisure travel a bit more difficult (you need to check in Thursday and leave a week and a half later on Sunday to do back to back five nighters).
Regarding the OP... I stayed with HHonnors (mostly due to locations of properties and the fact I know what I'm getting). When Marriot had their Mega Bonus I was sure to spend four nights to get the free night (in the past I didn't bother with that... so I guess you could argue Hilton lost several nights from me however nothing major)... A lifetime designation would refocus my efforts on Hilton...