Originally Posted by DCBob
...I do agree, though, that if you don't mind staying in a concrete block room the size of a jail cell (my last and only experience at a Motel 6), you aren't an SPG person and shouldn't bother staying there.
When you spoke of a "concrete block room the size of a jail cell, then continued, "my last and only experience...," I really did expect to hear the details of your last and only experience in jail. But you probably have no firsthand experience of jail cells, so are only imagining they are like Motel 6 rooms.
For me, it is not so much the size and furnishing of cheap rooms that is the major negative, it is the cheap bedding, in particular the the terrible pillows and covers. I am shifting some of my attention and spending toward the acquisition of SPG points rather than miles (UA). Could convert AmEx Member Award points to SPG ones, but 3:1, which I believe to be the exchange rate, does not seem like a very good deal.