It depends if you're reimbursed or if it's out of your pocket, doesn't it?

For me, given that I'm out of pocket and price sensitive, where I need to stay SPG and Hyatt are too expensive (compared to others), so ignore them. I'm pushing most of my Marriott stays out until after Nov 11, so that I can just max out the 30 nights in my MegaBonus promo, while using Choice (2 cheap one-night stays gets 8000 points) a lot until that promo ends on Nov 11. I'm also sprinkling in some La Qunita one-night stays for the 1000 (total) UA miles promo there through the end of the year.

(I have over 800k HHonors points from churning Citi HH Visa until the game stopped this summer, so I don't need to earn any more of that either.)

Oh, and I have to do one IHG stay somewhere in there to earn 35k or so bonus points, by completing 3 different tasks with 1 stay for my custom Accelerate promo there.