What is Stayplot?

The problem

If you carry Amex Platinum, Chase Sapphire Reserve, a Hilton Aspire and a Marriott Bonvoy card, you have at least five separate ways to book a single property. Each one — chain points, Amex FHR, Amex THC, Chase Edit, Hilton Aspire — lives in its own siloed tool. None of them tell you the others exist.

When you're planning a trip, the result is a tab-spaghetti weekend: Hilton.com, Marriott Bonvoy, the Amex FHR portal, Chase Travel Edit, and a spreadsheet to track which property is in which program.

What Stayplot does

Every hotel that can be booked with at least one of these programs shows up on the map. One physical hotel = one pin, even when it's in multiple programs at once. Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Hyatt, Wyndham and Choice pins show the lowest points a night starts at right on the map, so you can scan a whole city at a glance. Tap any pin to see which programs cover it, the TripAdvisor rating, the hero image, and (for the chains we track) a live rate calendar with cash & points side-by-side — then book it on the chain’s own site in one tap.

• Points at a glance: every Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Hyatt, Wyndham and Choice pin is labelled with the lowest points a night starts at — no tapping, no spreadsheet. When we’ve checked a hotel and found no award nights open, the pin reads “NA” instead, so an unavailable hotel is never confused with one we haven’t priced. A one-tap rating control keeps the map to top-rated (4★+) hotels or opens it up to all.
• Filter by your points balance: viewing a single program? A “points up to” slider narrows the map to the hotels your Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Hyatt, Wyndham, or Choice points can actually book — “I have 80k, where can I go?” Each program’s points are worth a different amount, so it’s one program at a time — and each remembers its own budget, so switching between them never loses your place.
• Chain points: Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Hyatt, Wyndham, Choice
• Card-credit programs: Amex Fine Hotels & Resorts (FHR), Amex The Hotel Collection (THC), Chase Sapphire Reserve Edit, Hilton Aspire resort credit
• What a card credit is worth here: on Amex Fine Hotels & Resorts and The Hotel Collection properties, Plus shows at a glance whether the statement credit covers a full night, most of a night, or part of one — alongside the typical nightly rate — so you know the credit’s real value before you book.
• Per-hotel rate calendar: live points & cash by date for Marriott, Hilton, IHG; points-by-date for Hyatt, each night color-coded by its off-peak-to-peak award tier so the cheap dates jump out; and flat points + live cash for Wyndham (7.5k/15k/30k any date) and Choice — with the points cost as the headline and cash as the supporting detail. We also work out the best free-night redemption for you — Marriott’s Free Night Award (which frees the lowest-point night when you stay five), Hilton’s 5th night free, and IHG’s reward nights (every 4th night free). The next few weeks are free to browse; sign in (free) to open the full forward calendar. Currency picker (the hotel’s local currency, USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, TWD and more) so you don’t have to do the math.
• Book it where you found it: once you’ve picked a hotel, one tap takes you straight to the chain’s own site to book — Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Hyatt, Wyndham or Choice — or to Amex Travel for Fine Hotels & Resorts and The Hotel Collection stays. These go to the booking site itself, never an affiliate reseller — we earn nothing on the click.
• Save what you find: sign in with Google or a one-tap email link to keep a shortlist of hotels you’re considering — it’s there next time you open the map.
• Price & availability alerts: for all six chains — Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Hyatt, Wyndham and Choice — set an alert on a hotel and we’ll email you when the points or cash price drops to a number you pick — or when a sold-out award night finally opens up. No more checking the same hotel every week.
• Forward a booking, get a rebook watch: already booked somewhere? Forward the confirmation email to trips@stayplot.com and we’ll watch your exact stay. If the same nights get cheaper — a points price drops, an award tier falls — you get one email telling you what canceling and rebooking would save. Works for points, cash, and free-night-cert bookings, in English and Chinese confirmations.
• Your free-night cert wallet: save the Hilton, Marriott (35k/50k/85k), IHG and Hyatt (Category 1-4 / 1-7) free-night certs you’re holding, with expiry dates, and we’ll flag the ones running out. Then on any hotel page, Plus shows what each cert is actually worth there — the cash value minus only the top-off points you’d add, with the full math shown. We don’t price the cert itself, so you can weigh it against whatever it cost you.
• Search by name or destination: one box that finds a specific hotel or jumps to a city or region — or browse the destination guides for a curated look at points hotels in a given place.
• Curated leaderboards — ranked lists of the redemptions worth caring about:
  • Best Marriott hotels for a Free Night Award — where a 35k, 50k, or 85k Free Night Award (you can top off with up to 25k points) buys the most hotel for the points.
  • Best Marriott 5-night points stays — where Marriott’s 5th-night-free on an award stay frees the priciest night.
  • Best Hilton Free Night cert hotels — where an Aspire Free Night cert delivers the most cash value.
  • Best Hilton 5-night points stays — where Hilton’s 5th-night-free benefit delivers the highest cents-per-point.
  • Best IHG hotels for the 40K Premier free night — where the Premier card’s anniversary free night (unlimited top-off) delivers the most value.
  • Best IHG 4-night reward stays — where IHG’s 4th-night-free on a reward stay cuts the most off the points.
  • Best Hyatt hotels for a free-night cert — where a Category 1-4 or 1-7 free night covers the most points (Hyatt’s flat certs are worth most on the priciest nights).
  • Best Wyndham hotels for a Go-Free night — where a flat Go-Free night (7.5k / 15k / 30k, any date) saves the most cash net of the points it costs.
  • Best Choice hotels for a free night — where a flat-points Choice award saves the most cash net of the points it costs.
  • CSR Edit + Select Hotels Credit — properties where the $250 Edit credit stacks with the $250 Select Hotels Credit (2026 CSR benefit).
  Every program’s free-night board lives on one page: the free-night leaderboards.
• Shareable map views: the Share button gives you a link that re-opens the exact map view — same filters, same location, same zoom — with a preview card for messaging apps.
• Research shortcuts: TripAdvisor rating + review count, hero image, and one-tap jumps to TripAdvisor and Google Maps.

Where we are now

All six chains and four card-credit programs above are on the map, with one pin per hotel and TripAdvisor ratings. For all six chains — Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Hyatt, Wyndham and Choice — live rates put the points price on every pin and power the per-hotel calendar (Hyatt is points-only, no cash, by design) — including each chain’s free-night benefit (Marriott’s lowest-point night, Hilton’s 5th night, IHG’s 4th night). The Free Night leaderboards cover Marriott (Free Night Award, 35k / 50k / 85k, and 5th-night-free), Hilton (Free Night cert and 5th-night-free), IHG (40K Premier free night and 4th-night-free), Hyatt (Category 1-4 / 1-7 free-night certs), Wyndham (Go-Free flat-tier value) and Choice (flat-points value) — all linked from one free-night hub. You can jump straight from a pin to the chain’s own booking site — all six chains — or to Amex Travel for Fine Hotels & Resorts and The Hotel Collection stays; for those Amex properties, the pin also shows how much of a night the card credit typically covers. Sign in — free, with Google or a one-tap email link — to save hotels and open the full rate calendar. The CSR Edit + Select Hotels stacking list compares Chase’s two 2026 credits against each other so you can see where they combine for up to $500 per stay.

Live rates now cover all six chains — Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Hyatt, Wyndham and Choice — each with its own calendar and free-night leaderboard. We’d rather ship a slice that’s correct than a wide one that’s guessing, so every chain only went live once its data was reliable.

Whose side we’re on

Most hotel tools are free because they earn a commission — or cashback — when you book. That gives them a quiet reason to push you toward booking, and toward the booking that pays them. We earn nothing from your booking. You reserve direct on the chain’s own site; a Plus subscription is the only way Stayplot makes money — the same whether you pay cash, redeem points, or walk away.

So we have no reason to dress up a mediocre redemption. We’re the one tool that will tell you a hotel isn’t worth your cert — and to save it for somewhere better. We earn nothing from the booking, so we stay unbiased: helping you find the best use of your points and certs, not the one that pays us.

Free and Plus

The map, the points price on every pin, the leaderboards, booking links, saved shortlists, the free-night cert wallet (with expiry tracking), and a few rate-calendar lookups a day are free forever. Plus ($7/mo, or $70/year — two months free) is for when you want to optimize: Stayplot's worth-it verdict on every hotel, smart filters that narrow the map to where a Free Night or an Amex credit actually pays off, what each cert in your wallet is worth on any given hotel, the 5th-night-free optimizer for your dates, and 10× the limits (50 calendar lookups a day, 10 active price alerts instead of one). One good redemption pays for a year of it. See the full pricing — every number is on the page, and you can cancel anytime.

Who builds this

A solo-founder side project from someone deep in the multi-card stack — Amex Plat, CSR, Hilton Aspire, Bonvoy — who spends too much time on the “where should I burn these points?” puzzle. Built in public, no VC, no affiliate — just the Plus subscription (see “Whose side we’re on” above).

Feedback, bug reports, feature ideas, missing property corrections: hello@stayplot.com.