Originally Posted by drutstein

It seems to me that the value of points being exchanged for any of the items in the catalog seem pretty low. For an example, I'm looking to use 150k points for a 7 night stay at the Marriott in Rome, a Cat 7 going for around $500/night (rough estimate). That comes out to about $0.21/point. As a contrast, you can buy a Playstation Portable video game system for 108k points, which runs for $200 on Amazon.com: $0.0018/point!