Getting the full 10.5 points per $ if you are a glob CC certainly makes this more attractive. Basically the only variable then is whether you end up overpaying or underpaying per night credit @300 each... well that and which and how many hotels are going to stay on the platform and be useful options. A few cursory searches of various places on the website already indicated to me that well over half of the hotels in the places I checked were "unavailable."