Welcome to FlyerTalk, BigEck.

The thing you need to understand is that with one big exception (Starwood aka SPG), there's typically a 5:1 to 10:1 ratio between hotel points and airline miles.

In several other hotel programs it's 5:1, but in Club Carlson it's 10:1. So for every 10 Club Carlson points, you only get 1 airline mile.

For this reason, hotel points are generally not worth converting into miles in most cases. The exception might if its a hotel program where the points are about to expire and there's no way to prevent that and you can't find a better use for the points, or if you just need to "top off" an airline account with a few thousand extra miles and the only way you can do that is by converting some hotel points.

But in most other cases, hotel points are only of good value when used for hotel stays (and even then, not at all properties in the program).

And for this reason, you should not be impressed by a hotel point number that "sounds" big. Hotel points could be considered "inflated" numbers, in that you may seem to earn a lot of points quickly, but then you may to use a lot of points for just about anything.