Originally Posted by
jeffandnicole
Never use just one example. And without much background info, it's hard to say if there was an apples-apples comparison, a glitch, or whatever...
FWIW, I've seen situations like that in NYC hotels quite often in the past, especially Sunday nights when rates then to be low. It wasn't hard to find deals where it would cost $100 for the room, or P&M of $109 + 24,000 points, for example.
I do realize that this was just one poorly substantiated example but over the past several months and more recently since implementation of the "perks" to the HH system I am seeing this type of story more frequently. While I did convert my HC points over to HH points this year I don't think I will be doing it again in the future unless I see values remaining stable in the 0.005 and greater range. Even at that it really doesn't break even for me given the MF's.