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I suspect that the answer depends partially on how full the hotel is at the time of the C&P stay, not when the reservation is made, at which time the hotel presumably isn't very full as they are offering C&P. For regular award stays, I understand that there are two reimbursement levels for each category in an attempt to roughly compensate forr what the hotel might otherwise have gotten for selling the room.