Originally Posted by
Yellowjj
I'm starting to think some hotels are trying shenanigans with the new award pricing or not properly adjusting award pricing.
A hotel in Miami which is a Cat 5, has a cheap rate of $100 per night but is charging 31000 points instead of 30000. A next hotel in Fort Lauderdale (Cat 6) has a rate of almost $140, but rooms are pricing below 30000 points. There's no way a Category 5 with a $40 lower base price is charging slightly more points for a standard room as compared to a Category 6 hotel with a higher rate.
Is the $100 per night rate the flexible rate or the advance purchase rate? I think the point system only applies to the flexible rate + hotel tax and fee. If you just take the flexible rate, it seems to be about 1 point per $0.0043. But if you add local/sales/hotel tax to it, it became very close to 1 point per $0.005.
I did the calculation on about 10 hotels in FLL and Miami area, they all have the same rate between $0.0042 to $0.0043 on the flexible rate before adding taxes/fees.