Originally Posted by
iahphx
Right. I even stayed in (admittedly rare) Hampton Inn for 10K not very long ago.
It's been a while since I've stayed in one. My last 10k hotel was Hilton Garden Inn Hanoi right before Covid, and a few years before that for US ones (which went up first).
That's when the Honors program was lucrative for "everyday" motel stays.
Right on. Hilton used to be my goto program for low-category redemptions (other than the periodic IHG Points Breaks). I made many trips domestic and international driven by those redemptions. IIRC the knife started butchering in 2018, and by Jan 2020 HGI Hanoi was the only good cat1/cat2 hotel left on my radar.