Official 2013 Category Changes - effective 5 March 2013
We’re making our annual hotel Category adjustments for 2013 and would like to provide you with an advance look at the preliminary list of changes. We want to be sure you are able to maximize the use of your Starpoints, so please review the information to decide if it makes sense to redeem before or after the changes take place on March 5, 2013.
While our Categories remain the same, individual hotels may move between Categories each year. You can click here to see each Category’s Starpoints requirements.
This year the majority of our hotels have stayed the same, but we have a few more hotels moving up than down. To view a list of the upcoming changes, please see the attached PDF. Please note that a select number of additional hotels may be added to the list prior to March 5th.
When you’re ready to book, visit spg.com or contact one of our Customer Contact Centers.
Best regards,
Christopher Carman
Social Media Specialist
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
Moderator edit : for the benefit of folks who would like an executive summary without having to read the whole thread, this is what's happening : these are the number of hotels which will change category :
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This year the majority of our hotels have stayed the same, but we have a few more hotels moving up than down. To view a list of the upcoming changes, please see the attached PDF. Please note that a select number of additional hotels may be added to the list prior to March 5th.
While our Categories remain the same, individual hotels may move between Categories each year. You can click here to see each Category’s Starpoints requirements.
This year the majority of our hotels have stayed the same, but we have a few more hotels moving up than down. To view a list of the upcoming changes, please see the attached PDF. Please note that a select number of additional hotels may be added to the list prior to March 5th.
Not to get too far ahead of myself, but this seems to be a relative win.
Assuming that it is in fact just a few more moving up than down.
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They like Milepoint more than us.... Boo.
Not sure about that. MP just has a file attachment function for posts. I suspect the technical problem alluded to earlier is getting the PDF hosted somewhere to share the address here.
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Not to get too far ahead of myself, but this seems to be a relative win.
Assuming that it is in fact just a few more moving up than down.
Ermm. Nope! Just based on my quick glance it's 3/4 page moving down and 4.25 pages moving up! Most of the hotels I've stayed in the past 1-2 years are moving up!
Boo. 
