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Originally Posted by
bigjimbo99
$280 room or 45,000 points? Is .01 still a reasonably good value for MR points, or has that slipped? I'm not so sure about .0062, and wonder would you just pay cash for the room?
It's all about where you might use it. I have found that I can get as much as 2c per points staying at some hotels. The "normal" redemption value that I have seen for a 1-night stay is 0.8c. Remember, it's all about where you are looking. Some hotel shave a very high variance on weekdays vs. weekends. For example, the Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian Center can run $250+ on weekdays, but $90 on weekends! As a cat-3, that is more than 1.9c per point during the week, but a terrible .69c on the weekends (including taxes)--same hotel!