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Finding hotel award availability can be surprisingly frustrating — especially at high-demand properties where standard rooms disappear quickly. Flexible-date calendars can help, but they still require searching manually. That’s especially true if you’re watching multiple hotels, trying to piece together a longer stay, or hoping an award night opens at a property that rarely has bookable space.
MaxMyPoint makes that process much easier by tracking hotel award availability across major programs, including
Here’s how MaxMyPoint works, what it costs, and when it can be worth using for your next hotel award search.
What Does MaxMyPoint Do?
MaxMyPoint is a simply designed website that tracks award availability at hotels within the World of Hyatt, IHG One Rewards, Marriott Bonvoy, and Hilton Honors portfolios.
The basic premise is this: You search by hotel chain, specific property, or location for which you'd like to see availability, and then the website highlights the most popular points hotels within those parameters
Once you select a property, you'll see the percentage of rooms with award availability (during the calendar year) and the average redemption rate per 10,000 points redeemed at the property. The site also allows you to set an alert for when availability opens up.
This is incredibly helpful for those sought-after properties since the site tells you at a glance how likely you are to find a room.
How Much Does MaxMyPoint Cost?
MaxMyPoint offers three membership levels. The good news is that the website is absolutely free for anyone to use, and you can even get hotel award alerts without a fee. However, if you're looking at a variety of properties or you'd like to use some of the more advanced features, you'll need to pay. Here's the breakdown:
| Member | Gold | Platinum | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Alerts | 1 | 10 | 25 |
| Max FHR Alerts | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| Any Day Alerts | 0 | 4 | 25 |
| Alert Frequency | Every 6 hours | Every 3 hours | As soon as possible |
| Hotel Detail Views | 10 per day | 20 per day | 50 per day |
| Ads Free | No | Yes | Yes |
| Daily Change Alert | No | No | 5 |
| Holiday Alert | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| SMS Alert | No | No | Yes |
| Refresh Monthly Calendar | 12 per day | 24 per day | 60 per day |
| Cost | Free | $3.99 per month or $39.99 per year | $7.99 per month or $79.99 per year |
Here's what all those features mean:
- Active alerts: Alerts you set to be notified when there's hotel award availability for your specific dates
- Max FHR alerts: Alerts for specific FHR/ The Hotel Collection hotels
- Any-day alerts: Alerts for availability within a range of dates
- Alert frequency: How quickly you're notified
- Hotel detail views: How many times per day you can check detailed hotel availability
- Ad-free: Whether or not you see ads
- Daily change alerts: Alerts letting you know when any award availability in the calendar opens or closes
- Holiday alerts: Alerts set for when availability opens up during a holiday.
- SMS alert: Texts you in addition to email
- Refresh monthly calendar: The number of times MaxMyPoint will update the calendar results daily
At just $79.99 per year for a Platinum membership, MaxMyPoint is cheaper than competitors such as StayWithPoints and Awayz.
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Using MaxMyPoint for Your Hotel Award Search
How does MaxMyPoint work? Once you've searched for the hotel you want to stay at (or scrolled the list of hot hotels), click on the property name. This will take you to the calendar view of dates.
In this screenshot, you can see that the Grand Hyatt Kauai has award availability on 22% of its dates. You can see how many points it's charging, the number of rooms available at that rate in parentheses, and the cash rate for each night. You can even click on more rates for categories like suite availability.
It's possible to click through the MaxMyPoint calendar to check hotel award availability on a month-by-month basis, but the list view can be more helpful if you're flexible on dates.
The list view will present the entire calendar on a single page. This allows you to quickly see which dates have award availability while scrolling and filtering. You can also search for specific dates.
Additionally, not all hotels are consistently updated. Less popular options may not display real-time availability, as you can see here with the Hyatt Regency London – Olympia.
To rectify this, set an alert for the hotel for which you want updated availability. This will force an update to show more recent results.
Setting Alerts on MaxMyPoint
You can set multiple alerts on MaxMyPoint right from the hotel award search results. Click the bell icon to open the alert tab. The number of alerts allowed is limited by your membership tier as noted in the chart above. Below is the typical form for setting up an alert.
Full-stay alerts will only email you if all dates for your stay become available.
Of course, if you're an experienced award traveler, you know the odds are low for a hotel to suddenly release award space for your whole stay. That's where the any-day alerts come in.
These alerts are available to Gold members and above but can be enormously helpful in securing a reservation at in-demand properties. When utilizing an any-day alert, you could book each day individually as it becomes available and piece together an itinerary.
Finally, daily change alerts are the best when you simply want to visit a hotel where standard award rooms aren't widely available — making it difficult to plan a trip. Ultra-luxurious properties like the St. Regis Bora Bora or the Waldorf Astoria Maldives Ithaafushi are good examples. Daily change alerts will notify you any time a room becomes available within the calendar, so you can swoop in and book the room as soon as it opens. Then, you can build your trip around the hotel's award availability.
As you can see, daily change alerts as well as holiday, flexible, and multi-night searches are only available to Platinum members.
Max FHR
There's one last feature to discuss on MaxMyPoint, which isn't something you'll find with any competitors. As anyone with the American Express Platinum Card® knows, it can be difficult to maximize the up to $600 in hotel credits it offers each year. This is because it's limited to prepaid stays with Fine Hotels + Resorts® (FHR) and The Hotel Collection properties, which can be expensive, and it's spread over multiple credits throughout the year.
That's where Max FHR comes in.
Max FHR allows you to search for a hotel name or location in which to use your credit. When searching, you can filter by program, which amenity credit you'll receive, whether the property features a special offer, and the price you're willing to pay. It is displayed in an easy-to-use calendar format just as award searches.
Max FHR is a niche tool, but very useful and absolutely free to use, meaning those up to $600 in credits from Amex will never go to waste.
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Comparing Hotel Search Tools
Much like search tools for award flights, hotel counterparts are beginning to flood the market. MaxMyPoint is by no means the only player in this space. Tools like Rooms.aero, Awayz, Gondola, and PointsYeah are also among those tracking hotel bookings and pricing.
While all tools have their strengths and weaknesses, MaxMyPoint really holds its own. On top of being less expensive than most of the competition, its calendar view and alert features are top-notch — especially for paid plans.
MaxMyPoint falls short on trip-planning features and lacks a companion flight award search tool — as Rooms.aero, Awayz, and PointsYeah do. But it should still be at the top of the list when you're looking for the right hotel tool.
The Bottom Line
MaxMyPoint is an incredibly useful tool for redeeming hotel points. Although it doesn't feature every hotel program out there, it covers Marriott, IHG, Hyatt, and Hilton — four major players. Best of all, many features are free to use. Ultimately, though, you'll want to pay for a membership to get the most robust features.
Looking for some inspiration for your first bookings with MaxMyPoint hotel award searches?
