randomdude

ritz carlton maldives

Johnny Rocket

St Regis NYC up from 100K to 106k a night

W South Beach 100K > 120K

Aloft Miami Aventura 40K > 31-39K

Harlem Aloft 35k > 40K

Le Meridien Maldives amazing value at 35K up now to 50K!

New York Edition, 70K > 66K

St. Pancras Renaissance 60K > 56K

Marriott Maida Vale 35K > 38K

Some properties have crept up ever so slightly in order to make the 35K FNA's unusable and to claw back extra points....

Le Meridien Denver, Tribute Magnolia Denver 35K > 38K - Denver Brown Place - 35K > 38K (although on some dates it is down to 32K)

hphreak

I booked a St Regis GV last night before the new rates are loaded, and it quoted at the 400k points for 5 nights, and I pressed "confirm booking" but there was an error on the website and couldn't load the final page to deduct my points and couldn't reach hotline. I had enough points for the 400k redemption but it just wouldn't load. But this morning (HK time), it showed up in "My Trips" but as a point advance with the new increased rate of 463k. This is absolute insanity. Why did it pop up and error and didn't go through when I had enough points and but now shows as a point advance even though I did nothing further with the booking? I'll try to contact marriott to see if they can confirm my booking at the original 400k.

yoonny

Not all bad news for me....for now.

Great:
Tambo del Inka went from 60K down to 44K per night for my dates in June. Actually pretty good redemption value.
Prague went from 50K down to 43K per night.

Bad:
Wailea Beach Resort went from 70K up to 100K per night for December. (Marriott did say this property would increase up to 30K points so at least it wasn't a surprise.)

ultrawin

Richmond Four Points 37K...what a joke

soy

For what its worth Loyalty Lobby reporting that Bonvoy has changed the T&C so instead of Free Night Rewards, we now have Gifted Night Rewards.
I cannot imagine any good will come of this. Its sad how much marriott has declined. For sure we had the initial gloss when the two programs merged, but now I would argue Bonvoy is significantly worse that either of its parents.

Legacy Marriott has gone from 'it does what it says on the box' to a 'better read the small print' type company, while Starwood was probably not sustainable in its former guise.

Boraxo

Complete massacre at high end (see examples below)

St. Regis Aspen - prior non-peak 5nt = 370k; new rate same 5nt = 449.5k
St. Regis Deer Valley - same dates - formerly 385k/5nt; new rate = 442k /5nt
JW Essex - April - formerly 60k/nt; new rate = 88k/nt
Ren TimesSq - April - formerly 55k/nt; new rate 57k/nt
St. Regis NYC - April - now 108k/nt
JW Wash DC - now 59k/nt on a $423 rate
St. Regis DC - 66k on a $538 rate
various Westins DC - no change

pinniped

Most hotels for my April Scottsdale/Tempe area trip went down slightly. But a couple hotels that were wide-open available earlier today flipped to unavailable. I did not expect that.

I will keep my original award, but I don't like the fact that some underlying availability formula changed in addition to the number of points required to redeem.

friedablass

Plenty of nights in 2023 peak season are now 60k points. That's almost double of the 35k you could have previously booked at!

newfbc

Seems to me a lot more than 200 properties increased.

I have a booking at W London in April for 5 nights... 200k. It's now 265k.

Ron.

GoSh4rks

That is not what loyalty lobby is reporting. “Free night awards” are now known as “award redemption stays”, and “gifted night rewards” are something else entirely - those are point reservations booked by a member for somebody other than a member to use.

https://loyaltylobby.com/2022/03/29/...es-march-2022/

lsquare

The cash rate during the pandemic has been pretty reasonable. I wouldn't use points or FNC at that property.

MaxFlying

I had 5 nights at the W in July, was 280K, now rebooked at 272K.

Also rebooked a Sheraton LHR at 16K instead of 17.5K

JohnneeO

I am using most of my points at WDW in late August/early September. So glad I booked when we did.

I originally booked six nights at the Swan for 220,000 points, and had to hold off on the 7th night until my CC points posted. But then one of the nights dropped from the nominal Cat 6 rate of 50K down to off-peak rate of 40K, and I was able to book the all seven nights sooner than anticipated. The entire reservation was now obtained for 250,000 points for all seven nights.

Tonight that same reservation has gone to 325,000 points. That's 250K to 325K. Previously it was one night at 50K: one free, and the rest at 40K. Now the six 6 paid nights are 54K to 56K each. That is within the parameters of the the announcement, as it is till less than the Cat 6 peak of 60 K/night, but obviously a huge increase. If I had to book now, it would be one less night at the Swan

In comparison, a room at the Swan Reserve for those same nights went from 270K to 278K.

I am also trying to add a night one day before our seven night reservation. Before today's change, a was planning to top off a 35K cert with 15 K to keep us in the Swan for all eight nights. Now that it is not possible, as that room is 54K. I have the Gaylord Plams booked with the cert, and that dropped from 35K to 33K. Not helpful when using a cert. Right now, the Swan Reserve is an option, as that is showing 49K, and would be an easier move when heading to the Swan. Who knows what rates I will even be seeing when the top off option goes live?

Johnny Rocket

This has been happening to a LOT of people!

Marriott over the last few days were pushing bookings through as 'points advance' even if members had a plentiful amount of Points in their account.

For many, there was no way of even knowing unless they looked extremely carefully at their reservation where you are given the option to have the points deducted closer to the time or immediately.

Deliberate or just bad IT?