Where your points go furthest

Every stay below is one we have actually priced — in cash and in points, side by side — within the last two days. We rank them by what each point buys, and we say why a stay made the list in plain numbers you can check.

How this list is made

We watch the cash price and the points price of the same nights at the same hotels. Dividing one by the other tells you what a point is worth at that hotel on those dates — more cents per point means your points are buying more.

A stay only appears here when every night of it is bookable, priced in both cash and points, and was checked recently enough that we still stand behind the numbers. When a price gets too old to trust, the stay leaves the list rather than staying on it with a stale number.

This is a short, honest list, not a directory of every hotel on earth — it covers the cities we already watch. If yours is missing, searching your own dates is free, and telling us where you are going is how coverage grows.