This is not as good as previous year, it still works for me as I’m literally changing hotel all the time but the date is also a pain.

Im going to Bali next week and I’d have stayed in 3 different “brands” before the promo starts (Fairfield, St Regis, Aloft) half way through my next stay I’ll be at the W and then I’m moving to an Autograph Collection hotel and then Ritz-Carlton. So I’ll be looking at 3 Elite nights and 7,500 bonus points. Again that’s slightly down on points as 9 nights would be 9,000 before.

It also means when I return to Asia start of April if I want more elite nights I’ll have to go to other brands. I’m not a huge fan of that. I suppose I can return to the ones I missed out on but I wanted to stay at the luxury brands only!

is a Ritz-Carlton reserve a separate brand?

Just readings terms again the points is per stay so it doesn’t have to be per brand. Only the nights are per brand. So the checking out and in might work for that?