This has been debated many a time on each Hotel Thread. Basically say theres a Hyatt for 25K or $1100 yet theres a Marriott near by thats $229 then alot of folks would say you saved $229 using your 25K. And we would say unless you HAD to be at that $1100 Hyatt if you used 25K to stay there you didnt save $1100

Now last week I used my Cert 1-7 at a hotel that was charging $1100 when I booked yet the day I stayed it was down to $749, the cheapest room in town was just over $500 any where , in the end I see my cert saved me just over $500. Really even less since I usually drive to that place and drive back after sunset so I could have been in a hotel for alot less then $500, not that great of a return for a Cat7 cert but it was to exp on 3/26. If I didnt have that cert I never would have stayed there and there was no reason I had to be at that Hotel other then to use my Cert before it expired. And at $500+ no way would I stay at a Hampton,Fairfiled , Courtyard etc unless I Needed and Had to be there. Do a search of my past posts you wont a mention anywhere that I saved $1100 on a cert redemption, cause I never see it that way unless I HAD to be at that Hotel on that date which wasnt the case