Originally Posted by
MileKing
FYI. Randy posted in the Hilton HHonors forum this morning that effective in February, the HHonors program is dropping blackout dates for all members and moving to "if a standard room is available, an award can be redeemed for it" policy (a la Starwood). Also a banner ad on hhonors.com stating the same. According to Randy, award point costs will NOT be increased as a result of this change. Seems to put Marriott Rewards behind the competition.
Agreed, and when you consider that Marriott is the toughest for qualification because it requires such a high level of nights & doesn't include stays...
BTW - I know that an FTer (BigLar perhaps?) had reported in the past that a lot of the London Marriotts were throwing in a single night as StayAnytime for about a year out, which bollocked up a lot of people.
Cheers.