OK, here we go again:

1. Try to "use points" for a hotel stay (i.e., book an award)
2. Give the city/country etc.
3. When the hotel come up, choose which one you want.
4. Pick a date.
5. If it's available (for your room type), it will say so; however:
6. At the bottom of the list of rooms, you will see verbiage like "Didn't find what you want? Try flexible date options." or something like that. Click on it.
7. You will get a little dialog box. Select the starting date and it will look for up to 4 weeks from then.
8. On the next screen, choose the standard award room. For now, don't choose the rooms that say Stay Anytime or Pointstretcher or that have additional fees and so on.
9. You will be shown a 4 week calendar with Standard availability shown for each day.

Obviously, you can go back and change the start date, and quickly get a snapshot of award availability for a whole year if you want, 4 weeks at a time.

Also works with ordinary rates, government rates, corporate rates, etc., as well as Stay Anytime and Pointstretcher (ha!) rates.

You're welcome.