 TITLE: Vacationing With Points: When to Redeem Points and When to Pay Cash CONTENT: How to Calculate the Value You'll Get From Your Points\n------------------------------------------------------\nAfter you get a grasp of how much each point or mile you redeem is worth, you will need to do a little math to make sure you're getting at least that value back from your redemption. There is an easy way to do this. Basically, you take the dollar cost of your ticket, room rate or whatever else you are redeeming miles for, then you divide it by the total number of points or miles you would need to redeem for it.\nFor instance, let's say you want to book a round-trip economy flight from Boston to San Francisco. If a ticket paid in cash costs $300 and an award ticket costs 25,000 miles, you'd take $300 and divide it by 25,000 to get a per-mile value of 1.2 cents. Not bad. END