Originally Posted by
thealphalion
well clearly in the past HH hotels were not able to set point redemptions above the category max. But now they can. So yes, it is because there was a limit imposed by IT previously that no longer exists.
For standard rooms they cannot charge more of the maximum. It is just the maximum now is what was the high season maximum before the change. There is no more low/high season differentiation.
And I seriously doubt that those calculation are done on the hotel level - more likely the Hilton level.