Moderator, Marriott Bonvoy & FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: McKinney, TX, USA
Programs: United Silver; AA Plat/2MM; Marriott LT Titanium; Hilton Gold
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I seem to remember at least one of the "sampler" awards was listed as usuable only for cat 6 hotels at least for awhile (and the Hawaii one would probably be it.) But it is now priced at the cat 7 level of 150K and I didn't see any limitations on category level. So that limitation has been removed.