Originally Posted by SimpleManToo
About to begin traveling again and was wondering who has the best 2006 Hotel Frequent Stay program going now? I usually use Marriott but have a lot of choices between Comfort Inns, Holiday Inns, Hiltons, Some Embassy Suites, Sleep inns in the area I will be traveling.
Depends on whether you want to use the hotel program as a way to get airline miles / points. If you do, the different hotel programs may be better or worse depending on which airline(s) you fly.
For example, if you use Southwest, the hotel point credit card described here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=564971
can be very valuable in that its initial hotel bonus points can buy Southwest points that take you half way to an award ticket. But on other airlines, the miles you can buy with the initial hotel bonus points are only about a fifth of the way to an award ticket.