Which card best for hotel rewards?

The Best Hotel Credit Cards
  • Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card: Best Overall.
  • IHG One Rewards Premier Credit Card: Best Hotel-Specific Card.
  • Hilton Honors Aspire Card from American Express *: Best Premium Hotel-Specific Card.
  • Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card: Best Premium Flexible Rewards Card.




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Benefits of paying for a hotel with a credit card Using a credit card to book your hotel stay can be a good option for both parties. The hotel may gain a sense of security, and you may have the opportunity to earn perks and benefits.

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How to Use Points / Awards
  1. Search for a stay with the preselected “Use Points / Awards.”
  2. Select hotel and room type.
  3. Review the reservation details. If an award is available for your stay, it will be preselected.
  4. Book your free nights.


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It's Cheaper to Book Direct When you book directly with the hotel, there are no hidden fees. Using third-party booking services has additional fees that you may on top of the rate. Online travel agents also charge a commission, which could be up to 20% of the booking, from the hotel.

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Enrolling in and maintaining a Marriott Bonvoy® Membership is free. Unlock Extraordinary Experiences. We're everywhere you want to go, with more ways to earn and redeem your Marriott Bonvoy® Points. Join now and earn your way to amazing.

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Hotel points generally expire between one year to four years after earning them, depending on the program. However, there are ways to keep your points active longer than that — the easiest of which is to continue to earn or redeem them.

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Yes, last-minute bookings are (usually) better. A 2022 NerdWallet study analyzed more than 2,500 hotel room rates from 2019 through the first half of 2021 and found an average of 13 percent savings for those who booked 15 days in advance as compared to those who booked four months in advance.

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Hotel credit cards help you earn rewards for your hotel spending — in the form of points that can be redeemed for hotel stays and other benefits. Over and above the opportunity to earn rewards points, many hotel cards offer perks like late checkout, discounted booking, and higher status in hotel loyalty programs.

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Whether you have a load of Marriott Bonvoy points from credit cards, vacations or business travel, you might be curious how much these Bonvoy points are actually worth. Based on our analysis, the Marriott points value is about 0.8 cent each. This is a baseline value, drawn from real-world data, not a maximized value.

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On paper, TPG values 1 million Hilton Honors points at $6,000, which is much lower than some other programs we've looked at in this series. However, as you're going to see, there are some tricks you can use to squeeze more value out of these points.

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Maximize the full potential of your IHG hotel points by selling them for cash with The Miles Market! Do you have a large amount of IHG points and no idea what to do with them? Rather than redeeming them for free nights or airline miles when you have no plans to travel anytime soon, consider selling them for cash.

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