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Old Mar 21, 2022 | 10:57 pm
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joeags
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With my spreadsheet now updated, I can see that this year's moves are just the typical yearly category changes dressed up with the point increases. But there is now an addition of a new category 9 and this year's changes have no hotels decreasing in category. 5K increases are category 1 & 2 hotels moving to 2 & 3 respectively. 10K increases are 3, 4 & 6 going to 4, 5 & 7. 20K increases are category 5 & 8 moving to 6 & the new 9 respectively. 30K increases are hotels moving from category 7 to 8. No doubt this all changes next year, but for the rest of 2022, things are mostly the same.

Category 3 is 15 / 17.5 / 20 for the ranges, and the 10K increase would make it 25 / 27.5 / 30, but I believe these will have the category 4 range of 20 / 25 / 30.
Category 5 is 30 / 35 / 40, and with the 20K increase would make it 50 / 55 / 60, so this would be category 6 of 40 / 50 / 60.
Category 9 should now be 90 / 105 / 120 based on the shift from category 8.

With that stated, here are the category change numbers:
Cat 1 to 2: 11
Cat 2 to 3: 26
Cat 3 to 4: 23
Cat 4 to 5: 12
Cat 5 to 6: 39
Cat 6 to 7: 23
Cat 7 to 8: 42 (10 ex-SPG)
Cat 8 to 9: 40 (24 ex-SPG)

Some of the hotels increasing 20K points are actually the ones that will be higher than the 100K max we currently see:
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A few amusing facts to me with my ~10 years of category change info:

French Leave Resort is the hotel with the highest and fastest point gain that I have on record, starting as a category 9 Marriott in 2016 (45K points), and increasing to 120K peak since August, 2018. A few Ritz-Carlton hotels were as low as 50K (Ritz-Carlton Maui Kapalua in 2013, Ritz-Carlton Ras Al Khaimah, Al Hamra Beach in 2018, and Ritz-Carlton Naples in 2013.)

There remains 44 former peak category 7 SPG hotels from the merger (30K Starpoints - 90K Marriott Equivalent Points). 22 are the new category 9, 17 are category 8, and 5 are category 7.

The Bodrum Edition will have jumped from 30K points in early 2018 to 100K peak this year for the highest and fastest jump to category 8.
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