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Sep 7, 2018 | 11:11 am

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Originally Posted by BeanTownBoy

I don't know what the before and after is, but I hoped to use my Chase Marriott certificate (good for up to 25,000 points) for the Courtyard Lenox/Berkshires (in Western Massachusetts) and was surprised to find that was 35,000 for a mid-week stay this week. I thought that was high and instead paid the $144 for a room rather than burn 35,000 points. It did not seem like a good use of points.

That property was Cat 7/35K before the merger and is now Cat 5/35K, so 25K wouldn't have sufficed before.

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