Frequent Miler on the Air · Friday, September 25, 2026
Greg clarified his unusual hotel booking for the challenge, explaining he used Delta miles combined with a Delta Stay's credit to book the Hotel Plaza Herrera because it wasn't a Marriott property. He acknowledged this was for 'very poor value' but necessary to secure the hotel and free up other points. He conceded he might have miscalculated the value he received per point.
“It's not a Marriott hotel and I had Marriott points. Um, so, you know, my problem was that Marriott hotels, there aren't any in Casco Viejo, which is the old town, and I really wanted to stay there.”
“Um, and so I did a, um, a wacky thing, which is I used my Delta miles to book, um, I used a combination of my Delta miles and $150 Delta Stay's credit from my, um, Delta Gold business card to book this hotel.”
“So it's kind of like a cash booking, but using miles for, uh, admittedly very poor value. But I think of that as, um, kind of, um, sacrificing my pawn, you know, you do things that seem like a bad idea in order to get something really good to happen.”
“Yeah. Huh. Okay, well, I'm going to have to check the math on that. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know what the total I had. I might have done something wrong.”