Originally Posted by demue

I have seen at times some standard awards appear a few weeks out, but no guarantees. I'm still monitoring for next year spring as well and cash rates seem very lofty so to say and points are only coming up as premium rooms. Standard rooms are barely offered even for cash and they can be rather undesirable (facing wall, crappy views, not renovated, etc.)

Even with a decent corporate rate discount (~20%) the better (renovated) rooms I'd like to secure come in around 500-600 Euro in late April / early May. Steep for sure for this hotel but seems the new normal and for that cash money I passed and booked a SLH (Small Luxury Hotels) property instead for now that actually was even a tad cheaper. YMMV.