Not to beat a dead horse, but the devaluation is actually much worse than stated in the previous post. Seven nights at at cat. 7 is actually a 60% reduction in point value. The part about devaluations actually being worse when you factor in the appearance of category 8 hotels is true.
Here's the full table that compares the old program grid to the new program grid with percent changes.
http://sites.google.com/site/makemar...on-spreadsheet