Originally Posted by beltway

Hilton's horrible new Premium Room Rewards pilot program, in which rooms only slightly better than standard rooms are priced at several multiples of the standard award point cost. Documented in depressing detail in http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hilto...oint-cash.html; some properties may have gamed this sytem by eliminating std rooms entirely.

The pilot is supposed to go wide in late September. Corporate had better step in, or this will be a disastrous unpublished devaluation.

(To keep things here on-topic, further discussion should go in the thread noted above. Thanks.)