Originally Posted by
shadowline
...I don't stay in hotels enough to warrant collecting points that would tie me to a specific chain...
There is no need to ever set foot in a Starwood hotel to benefit from using an SPG credit card because Starpoints are transferable to three dozen airline programs, most on the basis 1 Starpoint = 1 mile -or- 20,000 Starpoints = 25,000 miles.