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Old Sep 25, 2006, 10:18 am
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Originally Posted by yosithezet
Since you will be at the Le Meridien (funny to say The The Meridien) I would suggest you contact SPG and ask them. Also, raise the specific question about this property in the SPG forum. Each loyalty program has their own T&C but I recall specifically that I had a Le Meridien award stay in Israel and the T&C of the specific award stay said that Israeli citizens would be taxed some $60 for the award stay. Did it violate the T&C? Nope. Did it violate the spirit of a loyalty program? Yep. I got around it by booking with a non-Israeli address and using my US credit card.
I love the address-shopping creativity too. (Happy holidays by the way.)

I'll check into my LeMeridien award stays for DEL, but my SPG Amex doesn't show any charges during those award stay dates. (Unless someone else checked in on my behalf -- which is possible -- I can't think why I would have used another card for incidentals during the award stay. ) That is, I need to look deeper.
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