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The Best and Worst Hotels for Cashing in Rewards Points for 2017
Wall Street Journal
A new study shows significant declines in buying power at some major hotel programs, with the number of points needed to book rooms rising even as the dollar cost of a room drops. The study calculates the payback you get from staying at major hotel chains by comparing the price you pay in cash for rooms and how many points it takes to book the same room. IdeaWorks, a consulting firm, conducted 1,350 reward queries at six big hotel companies (none of them clients). Travel technology company CarTrawler sponsored the study.