tangey

Dublin conrad has gone from a 50k night, to a notional 30-50K night. Using the checking tool shows that it actually ranges 40K-50K. So I suppose that's a drop in points for those 40K months, and adding in the 5 night free, some 5 night stays can be had for 160K points, or 32K a night.

Might have encouraged me to push some MR points to HH, except MR plat in the UK has just lost its HH gold benefit, so no free breakfast etc.

azepine00

Yep let's do that - folks at hiltstone need fresh ideas for the next round...

TTL

Hilton Helsinki Airport!

raghu455

ConradBangkok!

jpdx

In fact, looking at the list of re-categorized properties, I assume that some of the new Cat 1s are simply mistakes. When looking at the one in an Asian capital that's moving from 30k to 5k, I can only assume that they meant to move it to Cat 7. Perhaps an American made the category assignments and a European was in charge of data entry and read the "7" as a "1".

I'm sure there are sweet(er) spots in the new chart, but I wouldn't count on all of them surviving until March 31st. I may be wrong with this assessment, but will be using my remaining 600k points to book four Cat 7 AXONs -- and if that Cat 1 hotel in an Asian capital materializes, I'll happily trade my 16 AXON nights for 120 nights there.

raghu455

In the Americas, these are the ones from wandering aramean:

The 60 best changes:

Hampton Inn Calhoun
Hampton Inn Cartersville
Hampton Inn & Suites Atlanta/Duluth/Gwinnett County
Hampton Inn Atlanta-Fairburn
Hampton Inn Gainesville
Hampton Inn Hinesville
Hampton Inn Lagrange near Callaway Gardens
Hampton Inn Jacksonville-I-95 South
Hampton Inn Dallas-Addison
Hampton Inn Beaumont
Hampton Inn & Suites Denison TX
Hampton Inn St. Louis-Columbia
Hampton Inn Freeport
Hampton Inn & Suites Chicago/Hoffman Estates
Hampton Inn by Hilton Ciudad Juarez
Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton Monterrey-Norte
Hampton Inn by Hilton Monterrey-Airport
Hampton Inn by Hilton Monterrey/Galerias-Obispado
Hampton Inn Clinton
Hilton Garden Inn Dulles North
Hampton Inn & Suites Chesapeake-Square Mall
Hilton Garden Inn Richmond Innsbrook
Hampton Inn Petersburg/Hopewell
Hampton Inn Newport News-Victory Blvd.
Hampton Inn Norfolk-Naval Base
Hampton Inn & Suites Alpharetta
Hilton Garden Inn Atlanta Northpoint
Homewood Suites by Hilton Atlanta-Alpharetta
Doubletree Hotel Atlanta Airport
Doubletree Hotel Atlanta NW/Marietta
Hampton Inn Atlanta-Northlake
Hilton Garden Inn Atlanta NW/Wildwood
Hilton Garden Inn Atlanta Airport/Millenium Center
Doubletree Hotel Columbus
Hilton Orlando/Altamonte Springs
Hampton Inn & Suites at Cape Coral/Fort Myers Area
Hampton Inn & Suites Ft. Myers-Estero
Hampton Inn & Suites Fort Myers-Colonial Blvd.
Hilton Garden Inn Fort Myers
Homewood Suites by Hilton Fort Myers Airport/FGCU
Hampton Inn & Suites Ft. Pierce
Embassy Suites Jacksonville – Baymeadows
Hampton Inn & Suites Jacksonville-Southside Blvd-Deerwood Pk
Hampton Inn Jacksonville I-10 West
Hampton Inn Jacksonville-9A & Baymeadows
Hilton Garden Inn Jacksonville Airport
Hampton Inn & Suites Bastrop
Hampton Inn & Suites Cleburne
Hilton Garden Inn Denton
Hampton Inn Effingham
Doubletree Hotel Chicago/Schaumburg
Homewood Suites by Hilton Chicago – Schaumburg
Hampton Inn & Suites Mexico City – Centro Historico
Hilton Guadalajara
Hampton Inn Albuquerque-University/Midtown
Doubletree Hotel Santa Fe
Hilton Garden Inn Oxford/Anniston
Hilton St. Louis Airport
Hilton Santa Fe Golf Resort & Spa at Buffalo Thunder

NJUPINTHEAIR

HGI Rome (Italy) Claridge decreasing to a Cat 5.

animalj7

Americas?

raghu455

Good catch. Removed that from list

travelexpert

With Axon, fourth night was essentially free.

Which enabled five nights for the price of four.

So no change.

For those wanting eight nights (like a Saturday to following Sunday)--AXON enabled two free nights.

Now eight nights requires points for seven (unless the AXON award will continue).

IflyfromABE

There are 3 Cat 1 Egyptian resorts on the Red Sea. Tickets there are about $850 from JFK via Turkish, or an easy redemption via UA MP points. That is a major bargain (unless there is political instability... on a second thought...)

sdsearch

I have a hard telling where the sweet spots are, because the list is so messed up. I was doing a search for category 1, and came up with several hotel names where it looked like this:

Hotel Name = Category 4
Same Hotel Name = Category 1
Same Hotel Name = Category 6

Obviously they're different hotels, but they don't provide enough information to tell apart which one is the cat 1, which one is the cat 4, and which one is cat 6 (or whatever the other category numbers are).

Why in the world couldn't Hilton put something other than just the hotel name in the list (when plenty of cases exist where they have two hotels that have exact same name, perhaps in different parts of the same city, or in two cities in different states by the same city name)??? Other hotel families are putting the city name, at the very least, along with the hotel name, on their category change lists, but, oh, no, Hilton can't be bothered!

YVR Cockroach

I think DT Kuala Lumpur is a Cat 2. Nice modern property with a great lounge.

Richard1148

I assume that you don't want to reveal which one it is. Can you PM me? Otherwise I guess I will have to do some searching.

Kieron