Originally Posted by
eponymous_coward
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
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?
Yeah, I guess its YMMV, but I have never seen it so high. A few weeks ago I did it and paid 41k for HIX Chelsea and cash price was 433.90 with tax. The best deal I got was HIX on 39th for 26k in March of last year when cash price was 422.60 with taxes.
Typically I stay during the week, not sure if that makes a difference. I work in midtown, so when I go to something at MSG its just easier to crash in the city rather than coming home only to commute back first thing in the morning.
On second thought, I just searched a ton of dates for the next few months and almost all of them are over 60k for points, and even found 1 day were it is over 100k. I guess IHG finally caught on to my great deals I was getting.
I miss the days of the pandemic when i could stay in NYC for nothing. Stayed at the FI in midtown for as low as $89 with taxes, when points value for the night was 70k.