Originally Posted by
bhrubin
I book groups, too.
The qualified spend details aren’t yet announced, but the elite nights for groups have been announced. If I remember correctly, it’s 10 elite nights for the first group/meeting, plus 1 elite night per 20 rooms consumed after that. The last is pretty much the same as SPG Pro in the final year or so.
The nights issue is sill not clear, though that is not my personal concern. I am more concerned about spend.
If we will not get spend credit for room blocks we book and pay for, I may stop booking group contracts and book only individual rooms. Of course I'll need to know how many rooms I'll be credited with (for spend). I'll also need to know if I will get credit for more rooms if I have all of the room charges routed to my room.
In January the Residence Inn Tempe (where I had no group contract) routed all room charges to my room (not at my request). The result was around $7K in charges on my room, but I received no MR points (because I could only be given points on three of the rooms). I had to call in to get the MR points added manually. If doing this will get me spend credit for all of my rooms, I'll opt for this strategy and have them add points manually.
I just need to know what the policy is. Until I know, I'm not signing any group contracts that I can't get out of. I'm just booking (lots of) individual cancelable rooms.