Originally Posted by
CHCflyer
I stay in enough hotels to not want to use my points for hotel stays. However, I think one of the benefits should be to gift stays to family members. I have about 200 nights in hotels so far this year between Accor and Hilton and I am drowning in points I don't really need, so gifting them to my kids would be a nice option.
I do not think that that is a problem. (And I'm pretty sure that I have done that in the past...) It's like booking a airline ticket, using miles, for someone else.
But the OP want to pay for someone else, get the points on that stay, and have the "guest" receive the benefits. That is something completely different.