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Old Jul 18, 2018 | 4:21 pm
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Originally Posted by damon88



We try to only use our points strategically for aspirational properties- typically St. Regis, Luxury Collection or W Hotels. Our best use is for 5 night redemptions. A recent example was 5 nights in March at the St Regis New York. The total points redeemed were 130,000 (32,500 x 4)

We almost always get great upgrades at St Regis and on this stay we were upgraded to an Astor Suite which was selling for $1489 per night. (I have seen it higher) So that redemption ended up at 5.7 cents.

That’s just one example.
I do have to disagree with that just because that's not the real redemption value. If you booked a standard room and got upgraded then the value of the points was the cost of the standard room; you would have gotten the same upgrade if you'd booked the standard room in cash.
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