bsdstone

There is a really great Moments package for the St. Regis Punta Mita. It's a golf and wine event and my wife and I are planning on traveling that weekend already.
I would have loved to bid on it, but the auctions ends on the 20th and the event starts on the 28th. That gives you less than a week to book flights and get to Puerto Vallarta.
Isn't there some way to have these end a month in advance?

lebowski2222

^ I agree, I also think SPG would want to encourage months in advance auctions because they could sell for much more. Look at the NHL all star game, that ended a solid month before the event and sold for over 100k on 4 packages.

I bet SPG gets a lot of last minute/extra tickets and they just throw them up on this site. I'm sure other sponsors get access to these same tickets, maybe last minute auctions are the other sponsors leftovers?

kevinflyaway

I was waiting for the new Cirque show to come to Amsterdam. Last year they had tickets for this show in Brussels en London, but now noticed that Cirque is also not listed as a partner anymore To bad! Was a great redemption...

redanman

Any one of us snag this baby? Someone got their points worth.^

bsdstone

I wish! I saw that and was drooling! That is the whose who of the Euro PGA tour and some big time PGA tour stars as well!

soonerfanatic

The Abu Dhabi event was a steal.

Looks like there were several new moments uploaded around Early Feb. last year. Fingers crossed.

Jaenks

Level 1 tickets(15k) and Suite(25k) available to all Adele´s London O2 arena concerts. Level 1 seats are in sector 103. Two packages per event.

donotblink

I can't believe how high the points price for the private dinner party at Daniel in NYC with Chef Daniel Boulud. I expected it to maybe be around 70-80k points, but I didn't think it would soar over 100k points.

I think people with a lot of Starpoints must really be worried about the impending doom of the Mariott acquisition, and just trying to get rid of their points any way they can.

I bid 100,500, and once I got outbid, I just gave up, as that could be thousands of dollars worth of redemption's towards a week-long trip in London.

lcpteck

Private portrait session with illustrator Maya Beus at the Bentley Suite in St. Regis Istanbul

The VIP Portrait Session with Maya Beus at The St. Regis Istanbul package includes:

• Portrait session for two (2) with celebrity illustrator Maya Beus at The St. Regis Istanbul on 3 March 2016
• Two-night (2-night) stay for two (2) in a Bentley Suite at The St. Regis Istanbul, checking in on 3 March and checking out 5 March 2016
• VIP access for two (2) to the Butler Stories event and The St. Regis Istanbul's one-year anniversary celebration
• Daily breakfast for two (2) and one (1) dinner for two (2) at Spago by Wolfgang Puck

Great SPG Moments auction to bid on if you happen to be there. This is a Category 7 property.

nycspg

getting that feeling as well - especially since no one from starwood has weighed in on the forums as they usually do

Starwood Lurker

Sorry if you disagree, but there doesn't seem much for us to comment on.

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nycspg

I guess I understand that it would be difficult for you to comment publicly, but all the speculation is that our points are going to be much less valuable with the merger, if there was anyway for you to comment on that? Here's hoping the speculation is wrong.

BOSTransplant

IMO it's pretty unreasonable to expect the Lurkers to comment on anything to do with merger point calculations prior to an official announcement. If the SPG Moments are too expensive for your tastes, then don't bid on them.

stimpy

Right, it's not only unreasonable, it would be illegal for any Starwood rep to talk about what could happen post-merger. That's because the merger hasn't happened yet and Starwood must operate alone and compete against Marriott. There is always the chance, slight though it may be, that the merger never ends up happening.

And as for people driving up Moments prices due to dumping Starpoints, that isn't true at all IMHO. First of all, realize that some people earn over a million Starpoints per year just with the SPG Amex alone. Secondly it is about a sure thing as you can get that our points would be preserved through a Marriott merger. There may very well be devaluation down the road, but that's at least a couple years out.

Out of my Element

Speculation is rarely positive. Every listen to talk radio or sports radio?

And yet half the time things turn out better than expected! Go figure!