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:
Al Maha, a Luxury Collection Desert Resort & Spa, Dubai
French Leave Resort, Autograph Collection
Giardino Ascona, a Member of Design Hotels™
Hotel Cala di Volpe, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Costa Smeralda
Hotel Pitrizza, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Costa Smeralda
Hotel Romazzino, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Costa Smeralda
HOTEL THE MITSUI KYOTO, a Luxury Collection Hotel & Spa
Mystique, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Santorini
Phoenician Residences, a Luxury Collection Residence Club, Scottsdale
Santa Marina, a Luxury Collection Resort, Mykonos
Suiran, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Kyoto
The Canyon Suites at The Phoenician, a Luxury Collection Resort, Scottsdale
The Gritti Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Venice
The Residences at The St. Regis Deer Valley, Snow Park
The Ritz-Carlton Bal Harbour, Miami
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel de la Paix, Geneva
The Ritz-Carlton Maldives, Fari Islands
The Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua
The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park
The Ritz-Carlton New York, NoMad
The Ritz-Carlton Ras Al Khaimah, Al Hamra Beach
The Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulch
The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman
The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto
The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe
The Ritz-Carlton, Naples
The Ritz-Carlton, St. Thomas
The Ritz-Carlton, Turks & Caicos
The St. Regis Aspen Resort
The St. Regis Bahia Beach Resort, Puerto Rico
The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort
The St. Regis Bora Bora Resort
The St. Regis Deer Valley
The St. Regis Maldives Vommuli Resort
The St. Regis Mardavall Mallorca Resort
The St. Regis New York
The St. Regis Punta Mita Resort
The Westin Nanea Ocean Villas, Ka'anapali
W South Beach
W Verbier
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.