Originally Posted by
birdiedouble
The total cash+tax price for those 4 nights would be $1017.86. Applying the 66,000 points to the stay would be a total of $682.46. The savings would be $335, so the points would work out to just over 1/2 cent per point. This would be my floor for a points redemption. The individual nights are 50,000 points and the nice thing with the points and cash is that you could use you whole balance. Maybe someone else has some better redemption ideas.
Hmmm, that's better then I thought it would be. I had kinda switched gears when I found out I could do round trip F on Delta for this little get away for 50k miles and Amex is 1:1 transfer to Delta. I would have to buy about 1000 miles and a little tax... or quickly buy all my theme park tickets on the Amex and wait for them to post :P
Then I was going to use the $300 Chase travel credit for the hotel... BUT, maybe I'll just use the points and travel credit for the hotel and fly Alaska coach down for cheap and make use of the Cent lounge in SEA... (Delta's connections are too tight to make use of any lounge in SEA, and my flights aren't all that long... PSC to SEA to LAX)