<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by PG:
[...] A Starwood gold/plat gets 25,000 airline miles for 20K pts ($6666 spent). With Holdiday Inn, [...] to get 25,000 miles you need to spend $6109. And a platinum member at Holiday Inn needs to spend $5169.</font>
Important disclaimer: the calculations are re: stay-specific earnings only--i.e. sans potential affiliated partner point earning possibilities (including related promos), for which one does not necessarily earn points at the same stay-specific points-per-$ rate (i.e. it can be at a better rate, & thus equate to less $ spent per point earned).