Seriously folks.

How many of us were actually redeeming Stay Anytime awards? I personally never have. Sure most of us would moan about lack of availability for our chosen dates at our chosen property but then for the most part either changed our plans to when the standard award was available, found some discounted rates, used coupons like the BBs and PPs or even the 10% discounted gift cards and used the BOGO EEO (for the Golds and Plats).

I personally have done all of the above including jumping hotels, using priceline or <name your own trick here>

This change will force the value for money (or points) dude in me to change my vacation habits to either 5 days at a time (which is fine if you do it domestically but not for international) or move to a new hotel program. I have already started reading SPG and Hyatt boards to see if their program makes more sense for my kind of business travel and redemption patterns.

Marriott Concierge - I'd strongly recommend that MR look at reversing these changes. I brought these changes to the attention of my team today evening and no one was too pleased.

Sigh! Guess the honeymoon's over....