Originally Posted by
goldenbear
. Why would one drop 78k rewards points for a 3 night stay at maida vale or any of the other cat 6 hotels, when the RCC is only 90k for that same 3 day stay. .
Standard award availability.
Of course if you can get RCC on standard reward, I totally agree with you! But very often the differential would be greater than 12k points for a three night stay. Also, as stated previously, room rates have little, if any, bearing on cat ratings.