How to Track and Set Alerts for Hotel Award Prices

Not long ago, hotel programs had fixed award charts, making it easy to plan redemptions.

Now, most major chains—Marriott, Hilton, IHG, and others—use dynamic pricing, meaning award rates fluctuate just like cash prices.

Well, Hyatt still has a standard chart, but even their peak and off-peak pricing add some variability.

One day, a hotel costs 50,000 points. The next, it’s 70,000.

With no way to predict pricing shifts, you risk wasting points or overpaying for a stay. Manually tracking these fluctuations is tedious, making it easy to miss the best redemptions.

Instead of constantly refreshing award calendars, tools like PointsYeah, Rooms.aero, and MaxMyPoint do the work for you. These platforms monitor pricing, and send alerts when rates drop, ensuring you’re getting the best deal for your points.

Here’s how they work and how they can help you maximize every point you earn.

PointsYeah: Simple and Effective Hotel Award Tracking

One of my favourite tools for tracking hotel award pricing is PointsYeah.

Originally designed for award flight searches, PointsYeah has expanded its functionality to include hotel award searches and alerts, making it a great all-in-one tool for tracking redemptions.

What I love about PointsYeah is its user-friendly interface. Even if you’re new to the platform, you can start searching and setting alerts without any steep learning curve.

One of the most time-consuming aspects of booking hotel redemptions is manually searching each hotel brand one by one, trying to find the best value for your points.

PointsYeah eliminates this hassle by allowing you to search multiple hotel chains at once, including:

Another standout feature is its ability to display both points and cash pricing side by side. Cash prices fluctuate due to promotions and rate changes, but this feature gives you a reliable baseline to determine whether redeeming points makes sense.

If you’re serious about maximizing your points, you need a way to track award pricing—especially now that most hotel programs use dynamic pricing.

That’s where PointsYeah’s alert system shines.

With PointsYeah, you can set up alerts to track point requirements for specific stays, and it will notify you via email whenever there’s a change.

There are two key benefits of this feature.

1. Rebooking When Award Pricing Drops

Let’s say you’ve booked a two-night stay at the Vancouver Marriott…