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Old Jul 14, 2015 | 11:26 am
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heffa
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Originally Posted by username
Let's use $0.03/point. A $50 rental will cost 1667 points which in the best case is $1667/1.5 = $1111 of spending. Say at a $40/day corporate rate, that is 28 days of rental! So, it will take a typical M-F business traveller 7 weeks to earn a $50 free rental.
The alternative cost of instead using MUHA002 and earn 10000 Club Carlson points/rental would yield 70,000 points. That is either eight category 1 nights, or one night in highest point category 7.
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