Compare Hotel Points and Cash at Hyatt, Marriott, Hilton and IHG

HotelXray is a free Chrome extension for World of Hyatt, Marriott Bonvoy, Hilton Honors and IHG One Rewards. Its side panel shows the points price, cash rate and cents per point (CPP) for every night of the month on hyatt.com, marriott.com, hilton.com and ihg.com, so you can price the same trip in points and cash without switching tools. Once you’ve booked, it can keep watching your reservation and email you when the same room gets cheaper.

Most features work on every program. A few follow one chain’s own award rules. Here is what HotelXray does on each:

	Hyatt	Marriott	Hilton	IHG
Reservation monitoring	✓	✓	✓	✓
Month calendar	✓	✓	✓	✓
CPP scale	✓	✓	✓	✓
Search results	✓	✓	✓	✓
Flexible dates		✓	✓	✓
Rooms for a night	✓	✓	✓	✓
Award filter	Room types, SUA	Standard, Upgraded	Standard, Premium
Free cancellation rates	✓	✓	✓	✓
Corp rates	✓	✓	✓	✓
Prices for your guest count	✓	✓	✓	✓
Lounge reports	✓	✓	✓
Award & rate alerts	✓	✓	✓	✓
SUA alerts	✓

Each program also has its own guide: Hyatt, Marriott, Hilton and IHG.

Reservation monitoring

Hotel prices keep moving after you book. When your rate can be cancelled for free, a lower price for the same room is money you can get back: book again at the new price and cancel the original. HotelXray watches for that on all four chains.

Open your booking on hyatt.com, marriott.com, hilton.com or ihg.com with the side panel open. The first time, select Allow so HotelXray can read your bookings, then Start monitoring. HotelXray checks the same room and rate until free cancellation ends or you check in, and emails you when the stay costs less.

Monitoring & alerts in the HotelXray panel on the Reservation monitoring tab, with four upcoming bookings: Marriott Marquis Washington, DC, Monitoring ended after a price drop email on November 12; Hyatt Regency Chicago, Arizona Biltmore and InterContinental New York Times Square, each Monitoring, with its booked price, what it watches, and a timeline from today to free cancellation and check-in — One booking per chain, each with a countdown to the end of free cancellation.

HotelXray reads the hotel, dates, room, rate, guests, price or points, cancellation terms and confirmation number. It never reads your name, contact details, loyalty number or payment card, and it never changes or cancels the booking. The reservation monitoring guide covers setup, the settings and the emails.

Month calendar

Open a hotel on any of the four websites and HotelXray shows the month: the points price, the cash rate and the cents per point (CPP) for every night. Every CPP is colored by where it ranks among that chain’s award nights, from red for the bottom fifth to green for the top fifth, so a good night stands out before you read a single number. Under the calendar, the CPP scale shows where the night you select falls, such as top 26% of Hyatt award nights. How much hotel points are worth explains each chain’s scale. Refresh any time you want a fresh rate check, free and with no quotas.

The calendar reads each program’s prices the way that program sells them. On Hyatt, each night pairs the award with the cash rate for the same room. On Hilton, a night with only a Premium Room Reward shows that higher price. On IHG, each night shows the lowest Reward Night with that room’s cash rate, and a * marks a night when another room is cheaper in cash.

HotelXray calendar for Hyatt Grand Central New York, a Category 5 hotel, in December 2026, under the Award, Cash Rate, Guests and Corp Code controls: each night shows its award price from 15,000 to 42,000 points, its cash rate and the cents per point, with December 6 to 10 at 15,000 points and the December 11 to 13 stay shaded — A month on each program: points, cash and CPP for every night.

HotelXray calendar for New York Marriott Marquis in November 2026, under the Redemption, Cash Rate, Guests and Corp Code controls: each night shows a standard redemption from 50,000 to 78,000 points, a cash rate from $379 to $669 and the cents per point, with Thanksgiving week the cheapest — A month on each program: points, cash and CPP for every night.

Search results

On a search page, every hotel in the panel gets a week of points, cash and CPP for your dates, so you can compare the hotels on your list without opening each one. Sold-out nights show ✕.

Lounge hotels are easy to spot. Hyatt puts hotels with a researched club lounge at the top of the list, and Marriott and Hilton mark them with a Club badge.

HotelXray beside a Hyatt search for New York, December 6 to 12: Thompson Central Park New York, Hyatt Grand Central New York and Hyatt Regency JFK Airport at Resorts World under Hotels with club lounge, each with a Club badge and a week of points, cash and CPP, then Hyatt Place New York City - Times Square under Other hotels — A week per hotel on each program's search page.

Two Marriott search results for November 8 to 14: New York Marriott Marquis with a Club badge, from 55,000 points and $449, and Courtyard New York Manhattan/Times Square, from 38,000 points and $279, each with a week of points, cash and CPP — A week per hotel on each program's search page.

Flexible dates

On Marriott, Hilton and IHG, a flexible-date search in HotelXray shows each hotel’s lowest cash rate and lowest points price for the month, with the date each one falls on. Open a hotel to see its whole month, then pick a date to open it on the hotel’s website.

Marriott flexible-date results for New York in November 2026: New York Marriott Marquis, with a Club badge, expanded to a month of nightly cash and points, with its lowest cash of $334 on November 26 and lowest points of 50,000 on November 22 highlighted, and Courtyard New York Manhattan/Times Square below with $198 on November 26 and 38,000 points on November 22 — The cheapest cash and points dates for each hotel, with the month one tap away.

Hilton flexible-date results for New York in November 2026: New York Hilton Midtown, with a Club badge, expanded to a month of nightly cash and points, with its lowest cash of $323 on November 26 and lowest points of 65,000 on November 22 highlighted, and Hampton Inn Manhattan-Times Square Central below with $209 on November 26 and 45,000 points on November 22 — The cheapest cash and points dates for each hotel, with the month one tap away.

Rooms for a night

Pick a date to see that night’s rooms. Each room shows its own cash rate, its points price and the CPP between them, so a suite or premium room is judged against the room it actually buys, not the cheapest room in the hotel.

The rooms are grouped the way each program sells them. Hyatt groups them by award type and adds Points + Cash where Hyatt offers it. Marriott splits standard and upgraded redemptions and shows Points + Cash where offered. Hilton splits Standard and Premium Room Rewards, with rooms sold only for cash after them. IHG lists every room cheapest first, each with its own Reward Night price.

Every rate shows its cancellation terms, and you can list every rate for a room instead of just the cheapest.

Set Guests and the calendar, search results and rooms are priced for your own party, children and their ages included. See how to price a stay for your guest count.

Rooms for Tuesday December 8 with Per Room on Cheapest Cash Rate: 1 King Bed under Standard Room Free Night at $330 non-refundable or 15,000 points, 2.2¢, or 7,500 points plus $180; the Corner Suite under Standard Suite Free Night at $545, cancel up to 2 days before, or 27,000 points, 2.0¢, or 13,500 points plus $275; and 1 King Bed Deluxe under Cash Only from $404 — One night's rooms on each program, each compared with its own cash rate and showing its terms.

Rooms for Thursday November 12 at New York Marriott Marquis: a Guest room with 1 King under Standard redemption at $615 or 72,000 points plus a $45 fee, 0.79¢, and a Guest room with 1 King and a Times Square view under Upgraded redemption at $705 or 82,000 points plus a $45 fee, 0.80¢, each Member Rate cancellable up to 2 days before — One night's rooms on each program, each compared with its own cash rate and showing its terms.

Award and cash rate filters

Hyatt, Marriott and Hilton each sell more than one kind of award, and a filter above the calendar shows only the one you would book.

Hyatt’s Award tabs switch between All, Room, Std Suite, Prem Suite and SUA. The SUA tab marks the nights where a Suite Upgrade Award applies, with the suite’s price struck through above what you pay with the upgrade.
Marriott’s Redemption filter shows All, Standard or Upgraded redemptions.
Hilton’s Reward filter shows All, Standard or Premium Room Rewards.

IHG prices a single Reward Night for each room, so it needs no award filter.

The Cash Rate row works on all four programs. Free Cancellation prices every night at the cheapest rate you can cancel for free, so the cash and CPP you compare are for a booking you can still back out of. Enter your company’s code under Corp Code and Corp Only shows just your corporate rates, next to points and CPP. The guides to free cancellation rates and corporate rates on a calendar show both in use.

The same December calendar on the SUA tab, with Cash Rate on All: on December 6 the Corner Suite's 27,000 points are struck through above 15,000 points with the upgrade, and its $540 cash rate above $359; December 31 shows ✕ in both rows — Hyatt's SUA tab, Marriott's upgraded redemptions and Hilton's Standard Room Rewards.

The Marquis calendar with Redemption set to Upgraded and Cash Rate on All: each November night shows the Times Square view room's upgrade price, from 58,000 to 88,000 points, with that room's cash rate and CPP — Hyatt's SUA tab, Marriott's upgraded redemptions and Hilton's Standard Room Rewards.

Lounge reports

For Hyatt, Marriott and Hilton hotels, HotelXray has researched club lounge reports: location and hours, breakfast, evening food and drinks, guest restrictions and known closures. Read them next to the rates to decide whether a lounge is worth choosing one hotel over another. Rooms that include lounge access carry a Club access tag in the night’s room list.

Expanded report for the 16th-floor Commodore Lounge at Hyatt Grand Central New York: open daily 6:30 AM to 10 PM, a continental breakfast, all-day refreshments, alcohol at extra cost, and a caveat that there is no hot food — A lounge report on each program.

Expanded M Club report for New York Marriott Marquis: open Sunday to Thursday 6:30 AM to 10 PM and Friday to Saturday 6:30 AM to 2 PM, eighth-floor location, hot buffet breakfast daily, Sunday to Thursday evening hors d'oeuvres, and extra alcohol charges — A lounge report on each program.

Each program’s guide explains how lounge access works there: Hyatt club lounges, Marriott club lounges and Hilton executive lounges.

Award & rate alerts

When the award or price you want isn’t there yet, set an alert from a search result or a calendar date. HotelXray keeps checking after you close the browser and emails you when it finds a match.

The form is the same on every program. Choose what to watch for: an award within a points budget, with the room or award types you would book, or a cash rate below your price. An alert can be priced for your guests, and a cash alert can skip non-refundable rates or watch your corp code’s rates. Choose exact dates, a day or two either side, or any single night in a range, and turn on Keep watching under After the first email to hear about the next drop. Alerts for all four programs share one list, in the side panel and under Monitoring & alerts on your account, and every alert keeps an Alert check log of when each check ran and what it found.

The Set alert form for Hyatt Grand Central New York with the Category 5 award chart, dates of December 31 to January 1 set to Exact, Points selected, Room checked under Room types and a 25,000-point limit for the stay — The same alert form on each program.

Marriott alert form for November 12–15 with plus or minus one day selected, Points selected under Notify me about, Standard and Upgraded both checked under Room types, a 180,000-point limit for the stay, and Keep watching switched on — The same alert form on each program.

Each program has a walkthrough from setup to booking: Hyatt alerts, Marriott alerts, Hilton alerts and IHG alerts.

SUA alerts

Hyatt alerts can also watch for a Suite Upgrade Award: choose SUA under Notify me about, then Points, Cash or both, and HotelXray emails you when an upgrade becomes available for your dates.

Notify me about set to SUA, with both Points and Cash checked and an empty Corp code field — A Hyatt alert watching for a Suite Upgrade Award on points or cash.

Get started

Install HotelXray, open the side panel and turn on access for the websites you use. You can enable one program or all four, and change your choice at any time. To monitor a stay you’ve already booked, open the booking on the chain’s website.

Comparing rates, exploring rooms and reading lounge reports need no HotelXray account. Your email address is enough to save alerts, monitor bookings and receive emails. Reading your bookings stays off until you select Allow, and HotelXray never asks for your hotel loyalty password.