Originally Posted by
GUWonder
I knew the course ahead would be choppy when a couple of years ago I saw hotels with a nightly price of $60-120 going for 30k points and having an even more interesting cash and points rate of 6k points + a cash component higher than the regular paid room rates.
All the hotel chains mismatch their reward levels to the actual paid room rates. Which is why it always seems nuts to me to be loyal to one hotel chain -- you need points in ALL the hotel chains because you never know which chain will have "the best" hotel in a given city (factoring in price, location, and hotel quality).
There are still "mismatched" award redemptions with Choice. The problem is that, this summer, they're skewing to overpriced, and the hotels where point redemption is a good deal are much fewer in number.