Originally Posted by
bhrubin
But I'll try to answer. For hotels that currently cost 45,000 or 50,000 or 55,000 points or so, I doubt any will be moving into the new Category 8 that at peak can cost as many as 100,000 points. If you know the ins and outs of the Marriott program, then you know that not a single hotel that costs 45,000 points ever would have moved into even the Ritz Carlton Tier 5 category, either. So they aren't moving into the new Category 8.
I do know the ins and outs of Marriott Rewards well enough to know that there are no Marriott's that cost more than 45k points per night for a standard room. I don't know where you are getting 50k and 55k (the fact that you refuse to admit this error is disturbing to me). Please stop talking about current Category 9 properties moving into the new Category 8. I have never made that claim. YOU are the one making that claim.