Originally Posted by
GentleGiant
The points are lower because the room rate is lower.
You are simply exchanging x points per GBP.
In the past you would have probably paid cash rather than use 30 or 50 thousand points. Now you have a choice.
If I was the one doing the booking, it wouldnt matter to me that it doesnt make sense to use my pts when the rate is $100. Id be ticked off as it seems the OP is that the hotel (or whomever) is playing games.
I can understand it being 30k which was probably the cap for the hotel before if it was 40k then I could hear 40k but not that it was 30k before 3/1 and now with the same rate its 31k, but the unknown is what rate the $100 is that the OP mentioned.And if teh rate is $100 then by all means that should take only 20k when using pts, and Ive seen 19k due to the low rate when before 3/1 the hotel cat was 20-30. So something isnt adding up