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Old Jul 11, 2007 | 6:27 pm
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Originally Posted by Delta3MM
Probably the best value is the air/hotel packages. For 235K points you get 120K miles in a host of different airline programs and a 7 night stay in a cat 1-5 hotel. You don't have to use both at the same time/trip.

Using the points this way - I value marriott reward points at least 1.5 cents per point and sometimes 2 cents or more.
Ditto to both of the above. Travel packages are the way to go. And I value my points at around 1.5 to 2.0 cents each.
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