Tag: Reasonable Redemption Values
What are Preferred Hotels (I Prefer) Points Worth?
In October 2024, Citi added Preferred Hotels as a new transfer partner. Those with the Citi Strata card (or the no-longer-available Prestige or AT&T...
What are Wyndham points worth?
Wyndham charges either 7.5K, 15K, or 30K per night for their hotels, making them one of the rare chains that still has fixed prices...
What are Choice points worth?
Choice Privileges is a bit of red-headed stepchild in the world of points and miles, as the majority of the chain's properties involve budget...
What are Hilton points worth?
Hilton has a weird hybrid approach to free night awards. Like IHG, they no longer publicly assign hotels to categories and can therefore dynamically...
What are Sonesta points worth?
Sonesta is a hotel program that's tended to fly under the radar for most points and miles folks (including me). It's been around since...
What are Marriott points worth?
It's been more than a year now since Marriott jettisoned the last remnants of their old award charts by removing top-end award price caps....
Are Greg and Nick reasonable or are they reward value heretics?
Is there anything more Frequent Miler than Reasonable Redemption Values? Since FM started doing them in 2014, RRV's have been like a warm comforter,...
Are points worth what they buy or what they save?
If your employer offered to pay the next $1,100 you earn in pizza, what would you say?
Unless you work at a pizzeria and they're...
Our 5 Best Value Hotel Award Redemptions Of 2018 (And One That Provided Even...
My wife and I have just completed the first year of our 5 year, 50 state road trip. During that time we've stayed in...
The new true value of Southwest points. How to get up to 1.9 cents...
How much are Southwest points worth? A simple calculation will tell you one thing. Real world observations will tell you another. The truth is that the value increases with lower price fares, especially when high taxes are involved. The key is...
Points & miles changing fortunes. Which points are worth more (or less) than before?
I maintain point values (Reasonable Redemption Values) for each of the major travel and credit card points programs. Most of the values are derived...
What are hotel points worth? November 2017 reasonable redemption values.
Hotel points and airline miles vary in value depending upon how you use them. For example, you could spend 15,000 Hyatt points for a...
Oddball airline miles (Southwest, JetBlue, etc.) are worth…
British Airways Avios are worth 1.17 cents each
Frontier Bonus Miles are worth 1.02 cents each
Hawaiian Miles are worth 0.81 cents each
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Airline Miles are worth 1.4 cents each. A simplified approach to Reasonable Redemption Values.
One credit card offers a $500 signup bonus. Another offers 40,000 airline miles. Which is better?
One online portal offers 10% cash back when shopping...
