How each loyalty program prices a room
Most guides tell you what a program says it offers. These are working notes on how the pricing actually behaves — which programs still publish a chart, which invent a number for your dates, and what we measured a point to be worth. Where our own data runs out, the table says so.
13 programs across 650 hotels · 315 priced so far · 3 point values measured by us rather than taken from published estimates.
| Program | How it prices | A point is worth | Hotels we've priced |
|---|---|---|---|
Marriott Bonvoy Marriott | Dynamic pricing The points price moves with the cash price, and is only knowable for specific dates. | 0.75¢ our own sampling | 87 / 181 48% priced |
Hilton Honors Hilton | Dynamic pricing The points price moves with the cash price, and is only knowable for specific dates. | 0.30¢ our own sampling | 143 / 152 94% priced |
World of Hyatt Hyatt | Published chart The program publishes what a night costs, so the price is knowable in advance. | 1.70¢ our own sampling | 27 / 101 27% priced |
ALL Accor Accor | Fixed value Points convert to money at a published rate, so every redemption is worth the same. | 2.00¢ fixed by the program | 58 / 66 88% priced |
IHG One Rewards IHG | Dynamic pricing The points price moves with the cash price, and is only knowable for specific dates. | 0.50¢ published estimate | 0 / 62 none priced yet |
GHA DISCOVERY Global Hotel Alliance | Fixed value Points convert to money at a published rate, so every redemption is worth the same. | 0.50¢ published estimate | 0 / 27 none priced yet |
Wyndham Rewards Wyndham | Flat tier A fixed number of points a night, regardless of what the room costs in cash. | 0.90¢ published estimate | 0 / 20 none priced yet |
Shangri-La Circle Shangri-La | Dynamic pricing The points price moves with the cash price, and is only knowable for specific dates. | 0.50¢ published estimate | 0 / 13 none priced yet |
Caesars Rewards Caesars | Casino currency Earned on gaming rather than stays; rooms are comped rather than priced in points. | not comparable — see note | 0 / 11 none priced yet |
Radisson Rewards Radisson | Dynamic pricing The points price moves with the cash price, and is only knowable for specific dates. | 0.40¢ published estimate | 0 / 7 none priced yet |
Best Western Rewards Best Western | Dynamic pricing The points price moves with the cash price, and is only knowable for specific dates. | 0.60¢ published estimate | 0 / 5 none priced yet |
Taj InnerCircle Indian Hotels Company | Dynamic pricing The points price moves with the cash price, and is only knowable for specific dates. | 0.60¢ published estimate | 0 / 3 none priced yet |
Venetian Rewards Venetian | Casino currency Earned on gaming rather than stays; rooms are comped rather than priced in points. | not comparable — see note | 0 / 2 none priced yet |
Marriott Bonvoy
Published charts were abolished in March 2022. A night costs whatever the property is asking that day, so there is no category to look up and no price that holds.
Only a dated availability query answers it, property by property. There is no shortcut.
In the way — Requests must match a safelisted query exactly, character for character, so the query cannot be trimmed or edited.
Hilton Honors
Never had a published chart. Points are earned quickly and are worth correspondingly less - on our own sampling, roughly a third of a Marriott point.
Sampled property by property from Hilton’s own storefront. No chart exists to shortcut it.
In the way — hilton.com is behind Akamai. Warming up on the homepage first is what makes a session work.
Worth knowing — Hilton Grand Vacations timeshare properties priced worst of everything we measured, at about 0.20 cents a point.
World of Hyatt
The only major program we carry that still publishes an award chart. Categories 1 to 8, revised annually, running from about 5,000 points a night at category 1 to 40,000 at category 8.
The category sits on every property page, so a points price is a lookup against the published chart rather than a live query for your dates.
In the way — hyatt.com is behind Kasada. A browser profile stops working after 10 to 40 page loads and then serves empty pages with a success status, which looks exactly like a hotel having no category.
Worth knowing — Category tracks cash price closely - category 2 sits in our cheapest price band, category 8 in our dearest - so genuine sweet spots are rarer than a chart implies.
ALL Accor
Not an award chart at all: 1,000 points takes exactly 20 euros off the bill, and points can cover part of a stay with the rest paid in cash.
No award data is needed. The points cost of a night is arithmetic on its cash price, and Accor publishes per property whether it accepts points.
Worth knowing — Because the rate is flat, no Accor redemption is better value than another. Their soft brands do not all take points, so a hotel can carry Accor branding and still refuse them.
IHG One Rewards
Dynamic, with no published chart. The largest program in our corpus for which we hold no award pricing at all.
Not yet sourced. What we hold is a property catalogue, which carries no prices of any kind.
GHA DISCOVERY
An alliance rather than a chain, and its currency behaves more like a discount earned back against future stays than an award.
Not yet sourced. Whether it belongs on this page as a points program is still an open question.
Wyndham Rewards
A flat redemption tier: a large part of the portfolio goes for the same number of points a night whatever the room costs in cash.
Membership of the tier is the whole answer, so no per-night sampling is needed. Not yet ingested.
Worth knowing — This is the one structure in hotel loyalty that can produce a true sweet spot, because the points price does not follow the cash price.
Shangri-La Circle
A single-chain program with no published chart.
Not yet sourced.
Caesars Rewards
A casino program. Its currency is earned on gaming rather than on stays, and rooms are issued against play rather than priced in points.
Deliberately not valued. A cents-per-point figure here would not be comparable with a hotel currency, so we publish none.
Radisson Rewards
No published chart, and among the weaker currencies by conventional valuation.
Not yet sourced.
Best Western Rewards
No published chart.
Not yet sourced.
Taj InnerCircle
A single-chain program, mostly relevant across our India inventory.
Not yet sourced.
Venetian Rewards
A casino program, earned on gaming rather than on stays.
Deliberately not valued, for the same reason as Caesars Rewards.
Point values are what a point buys in cash on a standard room night. Three are measured from our own sampling; the rest are the published consensus and are labelled as such. A program is only listed once we carry hotels in it.