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Old Mar 7, 2007 | 7:41 pm
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Originally Posted by jpdx
I'm probably the only one who didn't read the announcement that this would happen, but several formerly reasonable properties in Asia (e.g., JW Seoul and Renaissance Harbour View HK) have gone from a Cat 4 to a Cat 5 in the past few days. Very sad, these used to provide great value for the Marriott Visa free Cat 4 cert.
it's all based upon a ratio...the reason for the increase was the number of people redeeming awards was greater putting the hotel out of formula
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