Originally Posted by lerasp
is that violation of T&C of loyalty programs?
Since you will be at the Le Meridien (funny to say The The Meridien) I would suggest you contact SPG and ask them. Also, raise the specific question about this property in the SPG forum. Each loyalty program has their own T&C but I recall specifically that I had a Le Meridien award stay in Israel and the T&C of the specific award stay said that Israeli citizens would be taxed some $60 for the award stay. Did it violate the T&C? Nope. Did it violate the spirit of a loyalty program? Yep. I got around it by booking with a non-Israeli address and using my US credit card.