There are a lot of methods to redeem factors for lodge stays, and I normally select to redeem them for good-value properties that I can ebook for comparatively few factors. Sometimes, although, I splurge on stays at spectacular properties that I could not — or, not less than, would not — have booked with out factors.
I’ve stayed at many fantastic inns and resorts on factors, however some properties and stays are next-level and really particular. On this article, I’ve largely included inns and resorts which have respectable award availability and supply good factors worth on redemptions. Nonetheless, I’ve additionally included a number of which have restricted award availability however are too particular to depart off this checklist.
This is a take a look at a few of the most wonderful luxurious inns you possibly can ebook with factors, together with many I (or in some circumstances, my TPG colleagues) have been fortunate sufficient to go to or hope to go to quickly.
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Alila Ventana Large Sur
Price in money: From $2,167 per evening
Price in factors: From 35,000 World of Hyatt factors per evening
You go to Alila Ventana Large Sur to get away and calm down. This rustic forest resort close to Monterey, California, has 54 rooms and suites. Every resort reserving consists of all meals and choose actions like yoga, morning meditation and each day hikes.
Alila Ventana Large Sur is a resort the place your World of Hyatt factors can present important worth. “Ventana Large Sur is the proper escape from the true world — all with out driving too far. The suites are beautiful, the meals is nice, the property is pristine and the facilities are top-notch,” TPG’s Zach Griff wrote in his 2021 evaluate of Alila Ventana Large Sur.
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Nonetheless, customary room award availability is comparatively uncommon at Alila Ventana Large Sur. When updating this story in April 2025, the primary dates I may discover have been in January 2026 — and you will solely discover customary room awards while you seek for a keep of not less than two nights. In the event you discover customary room award availability, it is normally on the peak price of 45,000 factors per evening. So, be ready to have versatile dates when reserving, and think about using a instrument like Awayz to search out customary room award availability.
The resort is adult-oriented and solely provides double occupancy lodging. Notice, too, that the glamping facet of Alila Ventana Large Sur is totally different from the resort and would not have entry to resort facilities except you buy a pool go at $250 per grownup.
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Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal
Price in money: From $1,437 per evening
Price in factors: From 140,000 Hilton Honors factors per evening
“I simply adore the Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal. Each room has a personal balcony plunge pool, and daily at joyful hour, they ship Coronas and guacamole to your room. The meals and drinks are superb high quality, and so they even have a swim-up bar and a scorching tub (IMO, each Mexico lodge wants each),” Carly stated.
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It’s compelling that each room has a personal plunge pool and ocean views, together with the room sort you possibly can ebook with factors as a regular room award. The lodge additionally provides some glorious eating choices, together with one which TPG’s Eric Rosen frequents anytime he is in Los Cabos (as he revealed in his Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal evaluate).
Commonplace room award availability is plentiful throughout some seasons and very sparse throughout others. So, if you wish to get good worth when redeeming Hilton factors or free evening certificates on your keep, you should be versatile with while you go to Los Cabos.
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Calala Island
Price in money: From $4,400 per evening
Price in factors: From 150,000 Hilton Honors factors per evening
Calala Island — a personal island resort off the coast of Nicaragua with simply 5 villas and a max of 10 friends on any given evening — is by far essentially the most aspirational, really particular keep I’ve skilled.
Most friends relaxed across the pool throughout the day after which met on the bar after sundown for predinner drinks, after which after dinner, many individuals returned to the bar to speak and get to know one another. The place else does that occur nightly at a luxurious resort?
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Calala Island is a part of the Small Luxurious Inns of the World program and is without doubt one of the SLH properties you possibly can ebook with Hilton factors. Availability is normally restricted, and the property has a three-night minimal. Nonetheless, I discovered a number of dates throughout which I may ebook a five-night keep at customary room award charges. I extremely suggest redeeming factors for a five-night keep in a regular room, as then you will get your fifth evening free when you have Hilton elite standing.
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Miraval Austin
Price in money: From $772 per evening for single occupancy (from $1,274 per evening for double occupancy)
Price in factors: From 40,000 World of Hyatt factors per evening for single occupancy (from 57,500 factors per evening for double occupancy)
All three open Miraval resorts are well-loved by vacationers. I stayed for an incredible 4 nights at Miraval Austin in 2024 and might personally suggest it (see my Miraval Austin evaluate for all the small print). How a lot you may get out of a keep — or a day go to — is as much as you and the way a lot you lean into the expertise and its alternatives. However particularly in the event you’re trying to enhance your health routine, weight loss plan or digital mindfulness, a keep at Miraval Austin could possibly be a really memorable and constructive expertise.
Miraval stays do not come low-cost, although. Though there is a particular higher-than-usual World of Hyatt award chart for Miraval resorts, redeeming Hyatt factors nonetheless gives good worth on most dates. In the event you earn a number of Miraval additional evening awards via Hyatt’s Milestone Rewards program, you should utilize every award for an additional evening (even when redeeming Hyatt factors on your keep).
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Park Hyatt Kyoto
Price in money: From $1,228 per evening
Price in factors: From 35,000 World of Hyatt factors per evening
Ever because the Park Hyatt Kyoto opened in 2019, it has been one of the vital favored Park Hyatt properties amongst vacationers. When requested to appoint a property for this text, TPG’s Summer time Hull advised me, “Park Hyatt Kyoto was otherworldly. Prefer it felt … magical … totally different … beautiful… refined. It was distinctive and the kind of factors redemption that reminds you why it’s (greater than) price it.”
TPG’s Andrea Rotondo cherished the property, too. “I actually felt a bit misty as we made our means via Park Hyatt Kyoto’s foyer to take a look at. Our keep at this luxurious lodge ranks as one in all our prime journey experiences,” she stated in her 2024 Park Hyatt Kyoto evaluate. Andrea particularly appreciated the impeccable service, stunning suites and spectacular on-site teppanyaki restaurant.
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As a Hyatt Class 8 lodge, customary room award nights value 35,000 factors on off-peak nights, 40,000 factors on customary nights and 45,000 factors on peak nights. However customary room award availability will be troublesome to search out. As such, I like to recommend remaining versatile along with your journey dates and utilizing a instrument to set award availability alerts when you have your coronary heart set on a keep on the Park Hyatt Kyoto.
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Higashiyama Niseko Village, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve
Price in money: From $2,972 per evening throughout ski season (from $471 per evening throughout different seasons)
Price in factors: From 144,000 Marriott factors per evening throughout ski season (from 88,000 factors per evening throughout different seasons)
Zoe stated: “This lodge was definitely worth the factors redemption, in my view. Each element within the room was nicely thought out, together with the free minibar! The views of Mount Yotei could not be beat and the ski lockers/ski-in ski-out location was all the pieces we may have ever needed. The crowds of the ski mountain melted away the second you stepped inside this lodge with solely 50 rooms. To the tune of I by no means noticed one other particular person within the onsen even throughout peak season!”
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I used to be initially shocked when Zoe stated she redeemed factors for a five-night keep at Higashiyama Niseko Village throughout ski season, as I assumed award availability could be minimal. However there’s loads of availability for subsequent winter in the event you’re prepared to redeem 576,000 Marriott factors for a five-night keep. I like to recommend staying not less than 5 nights in the event you redeem Marriott factors because of the program’s keep for 5, pay for 4 perk.
Lastly, two suggestions in the event you plan to go to Niseko in winter: Contemplate reserving a limousine bus from the airport to your lodge and again (so you possibly can keep away from driving within the ice and snow), and do not forget that you should utilize your Ikon Move at Niseko United (which incorporates Niseko Village, the resort the place the Ritz-Carlton Reserve is positioned).
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The Ritz-Carlton Maldives, Fari Islands
Price in money: From $1,980 per evening
Price in factors: From 112,000 Marriott Bonvoy factors per evening
In case you have loads of Marriott Bonvoy factors and desire a spectacular keep within the Maldives, then The Ritz-Carlton Maldives, Fari Islands is a superb choice.
The Ritz-Carlton Maldives is only a 45-minute speedboat experience away from Velana Worldwide Airport (MLE), the place most worldwide flights arrive within the Maldives. Nonetheless, the necessary speedboat will value you an extra $1,018 per particular person round-trip, no matter whether or not you ebook a paid or award keep.
The usual level redemption will get you a one-bedroom ocean pool villa with an ocean view, although you possibly can redeem extra factors or pay a money improve price at reserving to safe a distinct villa sort.
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Frankly, I doubt I am going to ever be prepared to redeem the quantity of Marriott factors required to remain at The Ritz-Carlton Maldives, Fari Islands. Nonetheless, particularly contemplating paid charges, you are getting a steal on most dates — significantly in the event you redeem factors for not less than 5 nights of your keep and profit from Marriott’s keep for 5, pay for 4 profit.
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Six Senses Laamu
Price in money: From $957 per evening
Price in factors: From 160,000 IHG One Rewards factors per evening
I cherished my keep at this Maldives resort, and even years later, it has remained one in all my favourite stays.
Six Senses Laamu is a country but luxurious resort targeted on environmental sustainability. It employs a workforce of marine biologists, provides wonderful on-site snorkeling alternatives, consists of memorable experiential actions, has a cool children membership and options multilevel overwater villas as its base room sort.
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The 65-minute seaplane switch between Velana Worldwide Airport and the resort will value $1,199 round-trip, no matter whether or not you ebook with factors or money.
Nonetheless, you could get higher worth on the switch and your keep in the event you ebook a paid price (which is able to earn IHG factors in the event you ebook instantly with IHG) as an alternative of redeeming factors. Redeeming IHG One Rewards factors for a keep at Six Senses Laamu normally will not make sense in the event you can ebook a half-board price that features discounted room charges and switch charges. Six Senses Laamu periodically provides these reductions, so test paid charges earlier than you redeem factors.
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Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa
Price in money: From $869 per evening
Price in factors: From 25,000 World of Hyatt factors per evening
In terms of resorts within the Maldives that take part in main lodge loyalty packages, the Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa is without doubt one of the finest offers yow will discover. Final yr, I stayed at this resort and cherished snorkeling the large home reef and partaking within the each day Hyatt Globalist joyful hour.
The Park Hyatt is house to greater than 50 seaside and overwater villas. A 360-degree reef surrounds the non-public island resort, so you possibly can take pleasure in glorious snorkeling from overwater villas, the seaside and the 2 jetties. Facilities on the resort embody 4 eating venues, a poolside bar, a number of swimming pools, a health heart, a spa and an on-site dive heart.
Due to World of Hyatt’s beneficiant award chart, this Class 7 property prices solely 25,000 to 35,000 factors per evening, relying on the dates. If you redeem Hyatt factors, you may ebook right into a seaside villa. However the resort normally provides paid improve choices — together with for overwater villas — forward of your keep.
Whether or not you ebook with factors or money, you could pay $610 per grownup for necessary round-trip transfers between Velana Worldwide Airport (MLE) and the Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa. These transfers embody a Maldivian Airways flight to a home airport close to the resort after which a brief speedboat experience to the resort.
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Arctic Treehouse Resort
Price in money: From $350 per evening
Price in factors: From 22,000 World of Hyatt factors per evening
Simply as you possibly can ebook some SLH properties with Hilton factors, you possibly can ebook choose Mr & Mrs Smith properties with Hyatt factors. These two partnerships unlock some epic properties for factors vacationers, together with the 60-key Arctic Treehouse Resort.
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Hyatt makes use of dynamic award pricing for Mr & Mrs Smith properties as an alternative of its typical award chart. So, Lyndsey’s factors value may change earlier than she books (and charges could possibly be a lot increased throughout peak season). However the dynamic award costs do unlock the flexibility for her to ebook one of many property’s six Arctic Glasshouse rooms utilizing factors.
If you wish to ebook a visit to Finnish Lapland on factors, it would not get way more aspirational than the Arctic Treehouse Resort. However make sure you calculate your redemption price earlier than you redeem Hyatt factors to find out whether or not reserving with factors or money is best. And take into account that the Hyatt and Mr & Mrs Smith partnership would not supply lots of the customary World of Hyatt elite advantages, equivalent to complimentary breakfast for Hyatt Globalist members.
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Al Maha, a Luxurious Assortment Desert Resort & Spa, Dubai
Price in money: From $1,246 per evening
Price in factors: From 98,000 Marriott Bonvoy factors per evening
I debated whether or not Marriott’s Al Maha resort close to Dubai was price splurging on. After visiting in the summertime of 2022, I am joyful my husband and I made a decision to check out this aspirational, primarily all-inclusive resort within the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve. Our two-night keep was definitely memorable, from the meals on our villa’s patio and hours spent in our non-public pool overlooking the desert to the included actions.
The resort has 42 non-public villas with swimming swimming pools, and friends redeeming factors for his or her stays can take pleasure in three meals and two actions per day. Actions embody archery, desert nature walks, wildlife drives, falconry demonstrations and camel trekking. I realized lots throughout our desert nature stroll and loved the sights throughout our wildlife drive.
I felt a two-night keep was the proper period of time to benefit from the resort. However, due to Marriott’s “keep for 5, pay for 4” perk on award stays, you could possibly pay zero factors for an evening in the event you redeem Marriott factors for not less than 5 nights. Nonetheless, contemplating the resort’s distant location, 5 nights could be a very long time to spend except you are hoping to unwind.
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Conrad Bora Bora Nui
Price in money: From $1,438 per evening
Price in factors: From 120,000 Hilton Honors factors per evening
Summer time Hull cherished staying on the Conrad Bora Bora Nui in 2019, saying it was her finest Hilton factors redemption thus far and a keep she’d always remember. TPG’s Cameron Sperance stayed extra not too long ago and in addition gave it good marks in his Conrad Bora Bora Nui evaluate.
You will have entry to 4 totally different seashores on the Conrad Bora Bora Nui. You may also borrow complimentary snorkeling gear, kayaks and paddleboards to see marine life across the resort. Day by day actions — together with demonstrations on how one can open a coconut and play the ukulele — await.
Commonplace award nights value 120,000 Hilton Honors factors per evening. Commonplace award evening availability will be sparse to nonexistent throughout some seasons. But it surely’s doable to search out 5 or extra consecutive customary award nights throughout different seasons. That is nice information since Hilton elite members get each fifth evening free (as much as 4 free nights per keep) when redeeming factors for a keep of 5 or extra nights in a regular room.
Nonetheless, except you have got extra factors than you may ever have the ability to redeem, you may possible wish to keep away from the outrageous Hilton premium award evening pricing.
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That is removed from a complete checklist of luxurious inns you possibly can ebook with factors, and also you’d possible embody totally different inns in your checklist. For example, whereas many vacationers would come with the Park Hyatt Sydney on their checklist, I personally assume the very best inns are distant and separated from city life. It is all about your journey fashion.
Many vacationers would come with the Waldorf Astoria Maldives Ithaafushi on their checklist, and it was an awesome resort for my husband and me to redeem our Hilton free evening certificates final yr. Nonetheless, I could not justify together with greater than three Maldives resorts on this article. Even when your concept of an incredible lodge differs from mine, I hope this checklist helps you dream about the way you wish to spend your hard-earned factors.
