Originally Posted by Happy

Dont try to play yourself as a victim. You are NOT bonvoyed.

It has been a very long standing policy that award stay must be CONSUMED, i.e. actually stay the award redeemed, BEFORE the point expiration in order for that counted as an eligible activity for the purpose to extend the point balance.

I honestly dont understand WHY people could easily pay $12.50 to buy 1000 pts, or donate pts to a charity, or in the US, transfer pts from either Chase or AMEX, or use eRewards Survey for such purpose - the easiest obviously is to shell out $12.50 to buy 1000 pts, done in 2 min online and your balance is saved for another 24 months. I did the buy point thing a couple year BEFORE Covid - at that time the policy was already very specific that ONLY CONSUMED award booking could be eligible activity.

Why trying to twist and tweak the languages on the T&Cs just in order you can get away from that reward reservation?

FWIW, Marriott is not the only hotel program treats award booking this way. So as Hilton, so as Hyatt - all award nights MUST BE CONSUMED before they count as eligible activities. IHG is the ONLY main program that let you just redeem and cancel to still count as an activiti, and the now worthless Radisson program as well. Then again, as long as one owns an IHG CC, the IHG points never expire, and just how many on FT still care for the Radisson (America) program?!