Triple Dipping on Bangkok Hotel Reservation

On our way to Bali this summer, we have an overnight in Bangkok.  Our flight from Seoul lands at 10:30PM and our flight to Bali departs the next morning at 9:00AM.  We thought about heading into Bangkok for the night but decided it would be easier to overnight at the airport, get a good night sleep and enjoy a free massage in the Thai Airways Royal Orchard Spa in the morning.

There is a Novotel hotel connected (5 minute walk) to the Bangkok airport.  Over the weekend I checked rates for the property on the hotel's website and found that it was going for a prepaid AI rate of $138 USD.  I then used evReward to see if I could earn some points on my booking.

A quick overnight here before Bali

Hotels.com was offering 5x Ultimate Rewards points so I checked out the rate for the hotel and found it was exactly the same.  Excellent...time to triple dip:

• I booked the hotel (for $138) through the Ultimate Rewards mall earning 738 points  
• I paid with my Chase Sapphire Preferred card earning an additional 296 points including the 7% dividend
• Hotels.com also has a rewards program where you can earn a free night after booking 10 nights

I value the Ultimate Rewards points at $21 and the hotels.com credit at around $10.  Thus my total "rebate" is $31 on spend of $138 which is a 22% discount.  Well worth the extra ten minutes it took to check a couple of things out before booking the overnight.