Originally Posted by
Schnit
Thanks so much for your input. I had looked into the Courtyard but it was almost 200,000 points for the 4 nights I needed, which just seemed outrageous to me. The Homewood Suites and HGI in Brookline was pretty close to 200,000 too.
I was focusing on the Hyatt's because they seemed to have the best value, the Marriott and Hilton properties just required too many points unless I went all the way to Framingham.
Not sure what type of point balances you are rocking, but each program is going to have a different opportunity cost per point.
Personally, I think of Hyatt at 2 cents per point, Marriott at 0.8 cents, and Hilton at 0.5.
So if you had sufficient balances in each program already (and were not using transferable points), those Hilton properties might be the "cheapest".
Also not sure if you have the schedule flexibility for a 5th night, but Marriott and Hilton have versions of 5 nights for points price of 4; I believe you need status in the case of Hilton, but can be acquired with a CC sign-up.