Independent hotel reviews
See whereloyalty pays.
What your points and status are worth changes from one hotel to the next.
Private beta for now, though every stay here already links out to the official hotel page and the program that covers it.
Featured reviews
Four hotels we went through in detail
Each review works through what a night costs in points and what your tier is likely to get you at check-in. Booking details that change either answer get flagged.
The St. Regis Punta Mita Resort
Kimpton Kitalay Samui
Hotel loyalty guides
Which program fits
the way you travel?
There are ten guides, one per program. They include calculators you can run against your own numbers, and they link out to the official terms as those terms stand today.
Compare all ten programs- 01Marriott BonvoyTravelers whose destinations keep changing
- 02World of HyattKnowing what an award will cost before you go looking
- 03Hilton HonorsCoverage nearly everywhere, plus the fifth night free
- 04IHG One RewardsThe nights between elite tiers
- 05ALL – Accor Live LimitlessEurope, and anywhere else Accor is thick on the ground
- 06Wyndham RewardsRoad trips and cheap nights
- 07Choice PrivilegesMidscale value, mostly in the Americas
- 08GHA DISCOVERYIndependent luxury, with rewards that spend like cash
- 09Best Western RewardsOccasional travelers
- 10Radisson RewardsAnyone booking a Radisson outside the Americas
The programs you’re already in
Enter your programs and preferences once. Every recommendation after that is filtered through what you can actually use.
One profile for every trip
Set it up once and it carries across trips.
Marriott Bonvoy guide Example tier
World of Hyatt guide Example tier
IHG One Rewards guide Example tier
The sources behind every recommendation
Program rules come from the official terms. Rates and award availability move constantly, so those still need a live check on the booking site before you commit.
The ranking is trip-specific
Change the dates or the preferences and the order changes with them.
The UpTrip Dispatch
Recent reporting
Most of these come back to the same gap between what a program promises on paper and what shows up when you check in.
Make sure your elite benefits will count
Elite benefits depend on four things the brand logo doesn’t tell you: which hotel, which rate, which booking channel, and your own tier.
Where loyalty fits in Kyoto, Osaka, and Tokyo
One Kyoto resort where the IHG relationship is narrower than the logo suggests, plus two hotels where the Marriott and Hyatt paths are clearer.
When a hotel’s own club is worth it
El Cielo Wine Club is the test case: how to price a club built around a single property against a global program you already use.
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