Now I am paying attention. Having stayed in a villa (actually two nights left in current stay) with family - I find it somewhat difficult to go back to just a room for vacation. I have an award stay (standard room) booked in Hawaii and am considering cashing in 270k in points to get the $2,000.00 to use towards a one 1 bedroom villa starting July 3rd ($2,800 for 7 nights).

Having a hard time deciding if getting the villa and using the E195 award is really a good use of points. The out of pocket cost would be about the same but the benefits of a villa (758sf vs 425sf)

Now only if I can get one of those anniv double points promo