Starwood Preferred Guest program wrote back to me regarding the point structure of their new program. Some minor details:
Your Westin Premier Points transfer into Sheraton Club International (SCI) at a ratio of 5 to 1. This ratio is used to keep the point values equivalent to each other.
Your SCI account and credit will automatically be rolled into the Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) program when it is launched on February 1, 1999. The point structure of the SPG program is nearly
identical to that of SCI. We can not discuss the specific details of the SPG program until they are finalized.
Any additional points credited to your Westin Premier account will roll into your SPG account automatically.
SO basically The Starwood program:
*Will be point wise similar to Sheraton.
*All the Sheraton and Westin members are being rolled into Sheraton.
*I thought if you stayed more at Westin than Sheraton that that would be the program you would be a member of when Starwood launched the new program.
It's almost as big a secret as the new Star
Wars first Pre-Quel movie! CATMAN
Your point balance on the Westin Premier Web site reflects the number
of Premier points you have earned. This does not reflect the
combination of accounts or credit.