Let me first start off by saying that this is my first post on this forum. I have been lurking here for a while and finally decided to join!

Anyways, I'm going to the Sheraton Miramar Resort this summer for two weeks with my parents (dad is SPG Plat) and the rate is only 74 USD (give or take) per night for the second room for my sister and I. We also get full buffet breakfast for all of us (half-board) and we can add dinner for all of us for 44$ USD. My parents room is being paid for with points (2K for weekends, 3K during the week..Cat. 1). Is it worth it to use points for both rooms or to have it split like my dad set it up?

Also, has anyone else stayed at the Sheraton Miramar in El Gouna before? It seems like most of the members here don't realize how cheap some of these Starwoods in North Africa/Middle East actually are... and they are wonderful first class resorts.

http://www.touregypt.net/magazine/mag01012001/mag8a.htm

This will be my first time at the Sheraton Miramar, but we have stayed at many Sheratons and Moevenpicks with my family in the Middle East and North Africa that are dirt cheap. Last summer we went to the Sheraton Hammamet Resort in Hammamet, Tunisia and it was wonderful!!! I've never had a better vacation in all of my life (again another Cat. 1 property). So, why isn't there much talk of these cheap Cat. 1 destinations?