Originally Posted by
Schnit
When I stay in NYC I often find IHG has the best values. I can stay at a HIX in midtown for about 30k points (sometimes more sometimes less), and it varies time to time. Sometimes I am at the one on 29th sometimes 39th. Highest I think I have paid was 41k points, and cash prices are almost over $400 before taxes.
No other chain gives such great value
I've picked up the AC hotel Downtown NYC for cheap points at 1+ cpp. Just looking at some NYC travel I am doing later this year over actual dates, cheapest in Manhattan:
-cheapest IHG: Candlewood Suites Times Square, 61k, $324 base rate in cash (and $17.31 amenity fee, LOL)
Marriott has
many properties beating this in absolute points, and if I am willing to go down by Wall Street, I am seeing 40-45k properties like the AC Hotel Downtown (44k). That AC hotel's cash rate is $519 before taxes.
Conversely I see a HIX (Manhattan Midtown West) where it's $314 cash (before taxes and 68k points.
So it seems to me it might really be YMMV?