Originally Posted by smilee

With all the giveaway night bonuses my wife almost accidently has become Platinum this year. I was thinking about encouraging her to book a few nights on points when we go visit my Aunt in Edmonton. I was looking at December in Edmonton (I know who the heck would go there in the winter) and was looking at Dec 1-6 as the 5 nights would make her Platinum. Anyhow I was presuming that the 5 nights when occupancy is low, rates are low, plus Covid would be at off peak or standard at worse. So the Category 1 Fairfield Edmonton would be 5K or maybe 7500 a night. Well half of the nights are "Peak" and a couple are Standard. I was hoping for 20K (if they were all off peak, or maybe 25k if it was a mix) would be worth it to make her platinum. But nope, it is 10K 10K 10K 7.5k - almost double what I was hoping.

I looked at the paid rates, and they are really about $55 US ($75 CAD) so at 10k that is about .5 cents per point redemption.

So my question is how does Marriott determine Peak/Standard and the few Off Peak dates. If this is Marriott when times are lean with lower then average occupancy, what is Marriott going to do when travel is back in full swing. I guess I know what Marriott will do I guess they will shift even more dates to Peak or "Not Available" This is ridiculous. Needless to say, I won't bother encouraging the wife to mattress run for Platinum.

Is there any rhyme or reason to what Peak is? Obviously it is not purely based on rate or on customer demand?