Originally Posted by
Travelomania
Could someone please chime in with an interpretation of the new rules - in particular what happens when expired points (12/31/15) that have been used for a booking in 2016 that gets cancelled before or after 2/1/16 ?
Would the redeposited points count as "new points" for the new rules as of 2/1/16 or under the old rules and get confiscated because these were technically "old points" ?
Presumably the new policy is not in effect until 2/1/16, so what happens if you cancel before 2/1/16 is
presumably what happened last year in the same situation. (But no guarantees!)
Impossible to say at this point what happens if you cancel after 2/1/16. There's a third possiblity, which IMHO is even more likely: They'll be deposited as old points, but expire or not based on the new policy. In that case, it would behoove you to have newer activity before you cancel if those points were originally earned more than 18 months before when you cancel the stay.
And since this is not something Choice is necessarily likely to publish, we may not know how it works before we get some datapoints from people (such as you?) who actually try it.
At any rate, we're not likely to know it before Feb 1 has passed.