Originally Posted by
iflyjetz
Spent my last day as Glob booking more points stays. Still have >100K pts to burn. Once I'm done with that, I'll start working on my Starpoint cache. I'm LT Marriott Plat but done chasing status. I will now just book best value, ignoring hotel loyalty programs.
That is a good strategy in theory, but there is the hurdle of program benefits. You have to put a value, if any, on late checkout, lounge access, suite upgrades, waived resort fees, sometimes-waived parking, free nights, etc. If you give all those $0 value, then it's easy. Otherwise, not so easy.