I TOTALLY agree WITH you and YOUR posts!! MARRIOTT is DONE. IN FACT, I think THINGS are going to be EVEN WORSE than your OBVIOUSLY well informed POSTS indicate.

I'VE HEARD that MARRIOTT will have to START 2 NEW policies come summer:

1.) GUESTS paying DISCOUNT rates will have a LOT to WORRY about if THERE IS a cool SUMMER NIGHT requiring HEAT in HOTELS that use BOILERS. SINCE IT IS expensive to restart a BOILER during the WARM SEASON, these GUESTS will be LIT ON FIRE and FORCED to run around the HOTEL to warm the GUESTS paying HIGHER rates.
2.) ONCE Marriott REWARDS implodes and TAKES AWAY all our POINTS they will FOLLOW UP by billing EVERYONE ever redeeming a REWARD at ANY TIME during the life of the PROGRAM $1,000,000 PER REDEMPTION. A HUGE PART of the POPULATION will be BANKRUPT and HOMELESS after MARRIOTT'S NEW MILITARY COLLECTION UNIT captures those WHO can't PAY and hauls them TO MARRIOTT PRISONS to be built in OLD HOTELS.

PERIL EVERYONE!!!! PERIL!!!!! SPEND WHAT TIME YOU HAVE LEFT WITH YOUR FAMILIES!!

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Seriously pal, just because Marriott is ending a promotion (a non-hotel promotion at that), we can hardly say we have conclusive evidence that Marriott Rewards is dead. Anytime one banks a lot of points/miles in any program, one accepts and monitors a risk associated with that. All we can do is keep an eye on the situation and cash out when it makes sense or stay in if that looks like the best move. The end of your MVCI promotion plus a handful of changes to the program overall do not provide enough data to jump to the dramatic conclusions you've made. Further, you are new here with a low number of posts and little confirmed authority on the situation. Stick around a bit and you'll find your speculation taken a lot more seriously, especially if you learn from other posters and edit the tone of your posts accordingly.