> This doesn’t count hotel and airline loyalty points.
Can you show your calculation for this? Hilton pesos get devalued on a daily basis in my experience, and they even nerfed their free weekend night with the Aspire credit card so that it is only useful for “standard” reward nights and not “premium” reward nights. Of course, all the nice hotels like Waldorfs and Curio will require premium reward nights.
I have never seen Hilton points worth more than $0.005 per point.
You’re not going to get a great value by staying at a Tru one night paying with a combination of points and money in East MiddleOfNowhere Nebraska.
But I’ve literally been looking at points vs money in every major city in the US and a few in Canada as I’ve been creating our itinerary.
With Hilton, when you pay with all points, you don’t pay taxes and fees and if you stay five nights and use your points, you get the 5th night free.
We stay exclusively at Embassy Suites, Homewood Suites and as a last resort Home2Suites so we can have two separate rooms (Embassy and Homewood) or at least have more space and a full refrigerator (Home2Suites). I work remotely and need the separate room to work.
You can’t really stay at a Waldorf or Curio when you are staying at hotels 280 days a year. During the winter we stay at our 2nd home/investment property.
Next year, we will be staying at the following places with all points for 7 days and getting values between .7 cents and 1 cent each: Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Fe, NYC, Chicago and San Juan. This is just staying in mid range Embassy Suites. San Juan is at the Caribe for 10 days.
We won’t make it to the following cities until 2024. But I’ve seen good values in New Orleans, DC and Hawaii.
I was just referencing credit card rewards above. But you get 10x per dollar at Hilton, 10x for being a Diamond member (automatic with the Aspire card) and 14x with the Aspire.
> This doesn’t count hotel and airline loyalty points.
Can you show your calculation for this? Hilton pesos get devalued on a daily basis in my experience, and they even nerfed their free weekend night with the Aspire credit card so that it is only useful for “standard” reward nights and not “premium” reward nights. Of course, all the nice hotels like Waldorfs and Curio will require premium reward nights.
I have never seen Hilton points worth more than $0.005 per point.