Originally Posted by accountinquestion View Post
I booked a Best Western via hotels.com and the hotel clerk told me I could get best Western points. I have yet to research value of best Western points but the idea of double dipping could be a lot of value.
The Best Western loyalty program is not that great but if you can combine it with Hotels.com then that combination would be pretty good. With Hotels.com I get 10%. If I spend 800 pre tax dollars on 10 nights I get an $80 credit for the 11th night. But their loyalty program is going to change sometime this year.

Best Western is not that good of a loyalty program. You get 10 points per pre tax dollar spent. So $100 spent is worth 1000 points which is good for a $5 discount. But they do run promotions. Right now buying 2 nights gets 16,000 points which is good for an $80 discount. It's good until May 7th.

The current Choice Privileges promotion is good until June 30th. If you stick to the mid range hotels you'll average about 5000 points per paid night with a free night costing 10,000 to 12,000 points depending on the property.