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Aug 31, 2022 | 10:34 pm

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Originally Posted by Duck1981

Award pricing can be kinda funny.

I need to stay in Dubai at the JW Marriott mid September for a decent $160 per night; if I would use points for two nights they'd like to see 120000 for the stay!

Seems to be a total disconnect between cash price which is low (makes sense as its a low season in DXB) and rewards points requirements (which is closer to peak time).

No way I would spend so many points.

Agree - we all have an internal threshold for what our hard earned points are worth -- this coming weekend is our anniversary -- so I splurged and spent 296k points to save $4,000 at the St. Regis in PR -- and I would do it again in second -- as every day our points balance devalues....

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