Originally Posted by
Boraxo
How much you want to bet?
I guarantee the RC Cat 5 and these London properties will be at the top of the charts for peak season (summer) redemption (95k), if not on August 1 than certainly by the time the next revaluation occurs in early 2019.
The whole Marriott/SPG/RC program realignment is just providing a smokescreen for what is essentially a massive devaluation for all of the expensive high demand properties, and there is no reason to put lipstick on it or extend false hope. Book your award nights now, you can always cancel down the road in the unlikely event I am wrong.
I imagine most of the high demand SPG properties will stay more or less the same and the high demand Marriott properties will be brought up to that level. Just look at the example in this thread above with the Maui Sheraton the same price in points as the Ritz. How does that make any sense?