Originally Posted by
ShootinPutin11
Hi Horace, could you please confirm the part about getting the dates right? I'm looking to book a few nights in May, but my flights are dependent on award flight availability. If I book a category 7 now at 60k per night, and then sometime next year need to change the dates, will I then be charged the missing 25k (85k total) points per night? Thanks!
Think of it just like a cash reservation.
Forget about points for a moment. Let's suppose that, this week, you reserve a a hotel room for 5 nights beginning May 1, 2019, at a rate of $300 per night. Early next year, you decide you want to arrive on a different date. Your modified reservation will be at whatever the rate is for new reservations and it will subject to whatever availability there is at that point. You cannot depend on being able to move your reservation to a new date range at the same hotel for the same room type at the same rate.
It's the same with points reservations.