Originally Posted by
Matt4200
How?
Let’s assume you can find 21 nights that are off peak at a Cat 1 and nearby you to check into all within the promo period…(which on its own is practically impossible).
That’s 73,500 spent up front, 1 to activate the Q2 Promo, then 20 between 4/17 and 5/26 (which I would say is impossible, but would love to be proved wrong). If this was even hypothetically possible to find and get to you would then get 30k back so total cost 43,500 points still.
Note that this also assumes that you did not already stay nights between March 21th and April 17th which would then lower the maximum possible rebate as it’s capped at 30 nights.
That’s at maximum possible savings on points, not sure how one could get more “creative”.
There are cat 1 hotels that give an additional 500 pts to CC holders. So that's 3500 pts / 2 nights, not 3k.
There are HPs that give 200 pts / night if you decline housekeeping. Though you can't do it on the last night of a stay so you would need consecutive off peak nights; the more the better.
I do see on the calendar that 4/22 through 5/9 are all off-peak for the cat 1 HP CDG, as are 5/12-14 and 5/19-21. And they give 500 pts extra to CC holders. I'm not sure if they do the 200 pts for skipping housekeeping thing.
There may be other examples too; I'm not going to go through the points calendar for every cat 1 hotel on the list that's participating in the 500 pt bonus. There are many of them.