Hotels
28/60 pts
Hotel points, redeemed
On-line review · 28/60 pts
A free night that was not free
I 'paid' with points and still did math at the desk. The math is the stay.
Hotel points, redeemed
MINUTECRITIC · Aug 11, 2026
Loyalty programs promise to be the countermeasure to dynamic pricing and then become another layer of the same maze. I redeemed a night that looked like a gift and paid a resort fee that felt like a punchline. The room was fine. The feeling was that I had been played, politely.
A boring courtyard that tells you the total up front is, in 2026, a kind of luxury. Screenshot the rate. Check the total. Do not confuse a points number with a price.
Redeem when the cash rate is stupid. Do not redeem because the app sent a push. The app is not your friend.
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