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Old Jan 5, 2019, 12:50 am
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Originally Posted by fishy21
Hello. Does anyone have any advice for this... I'm a gold member and disappointing to see that I can't use points for the nights indicated, even though a "no-view" room is available. I know the price is insane for a standard room, but why can't I use my "no blackout" points?

Thanks.
Because that hotel is not a pre-merger SPG property so they're allowed to offer only a subset of standard rooms for awards. No blackouts for Marriott does not mean what it meant for SPG. It appears that whatever they allocated for those days has been taken.
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