Originally Posted by
hhoope01
You should be able to pay the point difference to "up" your category to a higher level. I've never tried to "lower" the category level and I'm not sure if Marriott will do that. What I have done in the past when I wasn't sure where I wanted to use my TP award, was to order the Cat. 1-5 as you suggest. And then up it to a Cat. 6 or higher if needed.
thanks for the information as its pretty much what I had hoped to here; since that last post I did some looking at the cat 5's and 6's (nothing really was in the 7's or 8's that I thought I'd actually want to go too) and there were surprisingly quite a few 5's that would be of "value" to me and the 6's definitely hit some of my preferred locations
I think at least at this point, I will do one of each and since its only a 30K difference it won't take much to make this up as its two months cc charges or less than one megabonus difference.