Originally Posted by
craigthemif
Instead of 21,500 points you earned a free night at a Category 1-4 and another 1-7 free night. I know the haters don't like the 4-month window for those certs, but it's not like we received a lump of coal.
I miss the amenity too, especially at the cheapskate hotels that never offered anything. But in several nicer hotels I still get the same bottle of wine, fruit, chocolates whatever that I used to get as a Diamond.
Not exactly a lump of coal, but there is a grand total of one Category 4 hotel that would fit my travel patterns and benefit from a free night. The Cat 1-7 obviously fits more places, but I'm going to need to go out of my way to use it within the 4-month window.
I'd happily give those up for 20k+ points that I could use within my normal travel patterns.
There is no way we'll even see the numbers, but I have to assume the number of Globalist stays at HP/HH dropped a fair amount this year without the benefit of the welcome points.