Originally Posted by
iahphx
I haven't yet decided whether to shift all my credit card spending away from Starwood AMEX, but I certainly will use the Hilton AMEX card where it provides 5 points per dollar (gas, groceries, restaurants, etc). With the recent Starwood devaluation, it just seems to make more sense not to put all my eggs in one hotel reward basket.
Doing the exact same thing for those establishments offering 5 points per $ for HH! So far this month I have put approx. 65% of my AMEX volume on my new HH AMEX and only 35% on the SPG AMEX. Normally 100% of my AMEX volume would have gone to the SPG card. Will only have to spend $8k on the HH AMEX (at 5 pts. per $ only) to get a 1 night at a HH Cat. 6 hotel vs. $10k on SPG AMEX for only a Cat. 4 hotel.
Only problem I see is that I will now have to figure out which HH properties I might want to stay at! With SPG I pretty much knew the program and most of the properties I was considering using points at. Oh well....that's what FT is for. Learning new things!