Originally Posted by
ChocolateFactory
He would be in the Maldives for 7 nights and he'd be willing to spend up to ~450 USD per night (or less).
I saw that by buying HHonors points during a promotion and using the new points pooling feature, he'd probably be able to book the Conrad Maldives for about that rate (provided there's enough award availability).
One thing to remember is that food, beverage and activities can very quickly add up to the cost of the room (or more). We went with a higher budget, even with breakfast included in the cost of our room our "additional" costs almost equaled our room cost at the end of our last visit- full disclosure we did 2 days of diving and had 2 higher cost meals.