I think the problem that Chuck was talking about still exists. If they map a Category 6 TP as 30K * 6, there is no 30K property under the new system. So the question would be if they are going to force people to use it on a max 25K property level or allow them to move up to a 35K property level. Based on the fact the new CCs are allowing for redemption at the 35K property level for the annual night (which is a current category 7 but a future category 5 and thus more generous then the current Category 1-5 point amount) then it seems like allowing redemption up to the 35K property level might seem reasonable as it would be small price to pay for the goodwill of your customers.
One solution might be converting the TP packages to just a flat total point redemption value and allow people to redeem it at whatever properties they choose, and this would be highly beneficial to some people, like I mentioned in my above post, it allows someone to stay more than 7 nights at a lower level property or less nights at a higher level property.

Call the phone number below. It seems Atlantis has it's own reservations number.

Im wondering about the peak pricing and how it will effect existing certificates. We do a big trip at New Years most years and have gotten great stays on points.
I was thinking about getting a Cat 9 and using it for New Years. Can I still do this if it is before the July change? I'm hoping to beat the peak point changes.

Apparently, Marriott will be allowing those with travel packages to redeem for points. No one will be losing their TP.

I'm just wondering if I should downgrade my cert back to Ritz 3. If they make them point vouchers it would be less points to bring it up to the new highest cat7 level than the amount I paid now to go from RC tier 3 to tier 5.

Category 8 and Peak pricing won't go into effect until sometime in 2019.

How does travel package work?
 

I am trying to determine if it’s in my best interest to use the MR’s travel package deal.

i was planning a trip to Spain/Portugal as follows:


yyz-Madrid stay in MAd for 5 nights
Goto Barcelona by train or air for 5 nights
goto Lisbon for 5 nights
fly back to Yyz from Lisbon

i know the Marriott travel package is for 7 nights.

i thofuhtt I could either extend Madrid or Barcelona for 7 nights.

I would be interested in booking a reward stay at a Cat 8 or 9 in Madrid or Barcelona.

if I do the 7 nights and 100,000 miles for a cat 8 hotel in Barcelona, that 100000 miles I would transfer to Air Canada, do I have to book directly from Toronto to BCN?
or can I use that 100000 miles as I wish with Aeroplan?
Where I would do a YYZ-MAD, and return via LiS-Yyz?

Or or am I better to just stick with my original plan of 5 nights in each city, and book my air separately with my Aeroplan miles?

There is no requirement to use all 7 nights of the TP cert. You could stay 5 nights, leave the hotel and the cert would be fully used.

It's best to find out first what your miles can buy in terms of a trip. The miles deposited into Aeroplan can be used on a partner airline one way or return. Or banked for later.

anyone ever order a travel package with ANA miles? I just did that. They said 4-6 weeks for mileage transfer.

Not ANA, but I did TK and was told upto 8 weeks. It turned out to 4. It was a nervous time waiting for the points for a redemeption that was available, as I'd expected just a couple of days' wait to get the TK miles.

Do you have a source link? So it will be just flat points added to your account? That would probably be the best way of handling things and not risking a run on TP redemptions to possibly get some out-sized benefit. It also seems like the benefit of the TP will still be the same, pretty much the TP gives you X miles at 1:1 points + 7 award nights of points.

Once the miles are deposited in your Aeroplan account, the use of those miles is based on the rules of Aeroplan as all Marriott will do is dump the miles into that account. How you use them is totally up to you. Marriott won't know or care how they are used.

I wish they had been clearer about what would happen to these packages as I just don't know what to do.

I had a Cat 1-5 that I upgraded to Tier 1-3 (moving up as I get more points) and now have enough points to upgrade again to Tier 4-5 as I ultimately want to stay at the RC Dubai which is Tier 5 but don't want to upgrade my package again if they convert Tier 1-3 to Cat 7 (which I assume this RC is going to become). But again I don't want a Tier 1-3 package if they convert a lower package to Cat 7. I mean if this happens are they going to refund everyone that had higher packages? Can we even downgrade our packages?

They should have just suspended package sales and said everyone that has one already can upgrade/downgrade as this is what will happen and then resume sales on August 1 at the new rates.

They have left us all in limbo as I dont want to be spending on packages that are going to be worse off on August 1 and was unnecessary.

Frustrating!

Hotel classifications come out mid June.

I'm sure the TP procedure won't be long after. Still plenty of time before August to hoard points and do what's best before d-day

Please don't. I love TP and will buy couples before 8/1