I am not sure if this is the best place to ask this question. Moderators are welcome to move the thread to an appropriate forum.

I am trying to book a hotel room in Taj Lake Palace, Udaipur, India for my parents using the points from either American Express, Delta or AA.
Of course, I would like to book using the minimum number of points.

I have 25000 points in Amex, 10000 points in SPG, 70000 points in Delta, 60000 points in AA and about 20000 Thankyou points.
We have some other accounts at Delta, Amex, AA and Thankyou where we have some more points ranging between 10K -25K.

Now if I book by cash it will cost me around $380 including taxes.
1. In american express I can see booking in two ways:
one would be via travel and then pay with points - that seems to cost around 80K points
other way is to use "Leading Hotels" certificate which costs 70K points.
2. Delta seems to be cheapest it costs 53K Delta miles.
3. AA site is quite strange. Now if I try hotels link on aa.com, it directs me to AAVacations site and it offers me the price of $380 but if I use the link in redeem miles section, it still directs me to AAVacations but this time shows me price of $533 and costs 80K AA miles.

So, is there any other (cheaper) way to book this hotel room?
Thanks in advance for suggestions.

ps. If it matters I need to book the room for one night from June 27 to June 28.

What type of American Express card do you have?

Amex Premier Rewards Gold Card and Delta Gold card.

I do not see any reason to consider redeeming Membership Rewards points because (a) you do not have enough points and (b) it would be very poor value, about $0.005 each.

I think you can see from the AA comparison that there is a discounted price available ($380) that is not reflected in the miles/points pricing for any program, probably because of very limited availability or restrictions. If you are determined to use points or miles rather than cash to pay for this stay I would use the Skymiles because of Delta's notoriously poor award seat availability. However, Delta is still poor very value ($0.007 per mile).

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I am moving this thread to Other Hotel Programs where someone may have helpful experience with this specific property or chain.

Contact an India based TA - they can often get you a better deal.

Transfer your AmEx points to Delta getting the transfer bonus then use delta miles to book.

Thanks for all the comments.
I have finally booked the room using Delta miles. I anyway have too many miles which I have not used recently.
Thanks again