You really do like hiltons!
I get a boatload of points from work and I don't care what anyone says if you aren't just playing the CC churning game but actually spending money at hotels, NOBODY lets you earn crazy amounts of points like HHonors. I usually end up earning like 30ppd plus another 12 ppd from the Surpass card, so if you can find a redemption close to a penny a point you are getting like a 30% return!
Now on "bad" redemptions like this one where I'm only getting about .35 of a cent per point I figure I'm still getting like 10-15% back on my spend.
how much did it cost?
A little over a million points. Before I get killed here for the redemption, I was going to have to anyway get two rooms for my family and once I realized that with our flights we can only be there 4 nights and I can't get the 5th night free discount, it wasn't that much more to get the residence, with a ton more space and a full kitchen, than getting two rooms. Also, almost all these points are earned at a minimum of 12ppd so really it's probably about 75k in spend for these points, same as spending let's say 25k SPG points a night since SPG are so hard to earn with little bonus earning possibilities...I know I'm rationalizing!
