They also published the new non-US categories here: hotelrecategorizationlist2021_tcm7-390592.pdf (radissonhotels.com)

Nowadays I only stay at Radissons in Finland/Estonia/Latvia. In Finland all hotels are now at 45.000 points, before most of them were 44.000, one 38.000 and one 50.000 so there was a slight devaluation. In Estonia all hotels except Sky moved to a lower category so this was actually an improvement. Same in Latvia, the Old Town hotel went up, all others down, so an improvement there as well.

I didn't find one hotel on the new list: Palace Hotel Tallinn, a member of Radisson Individuals. It still shows 38K for bookings in July.

It is a bit absurd to devaluate points at the time when cash rates are down. I've already stopped using points because while points rates remained the same, cash rates are significantly cheaper, making the value I get for points very low. Rather than incentivising me to spend points during the pandemic, they are pushing me to hoard even more points until cash rates increase enough for redemptions to be worth even considering. Very weird decision.

As an example, I have been looking into redeeming at Radisson Collection Strand in Stockholm. If we assume value of 0,003€ per point, 70k points (old price) is worth 210€, 75k points (new price) is worth 225€. Cash rates are around 140€. No way I'm gonna spend that much points to save 140€, when I can normally get over 300€ value for the same amount of points (e.g. at 1919 Reykjavík during normal times).

I found the same thing over the past year. I was grabbing rates between $52 and $65 a night in NYC at their Midtown/Fifth Avenue property, Meanwhile, they still wanted 70K points a night. I had quite a few more stays booked over the next six or so months for around $100 a night at the same hotel, but just cancelled all of them.

I'm not sure what my future will hold with Radisson. At this point, I'm thinking that I will keep their credit card, charge $30K a year to receive three free domestic nights, and stop any revenue stays. Of course, I could change my mind tomorrow.

Radisson actually addressed this with a promo last year when they offered rebate for redemptions but it was done in a rather stupid way (you had to pay full price and then you got a refund 🤦‍♂️) and it wasn't prolonged.

I totally forgot about that promo.

As part of my NY stays, and rock bottom rates, I also picked up 20K points per night, which was a great windfall. That promotion ended in March.

Well generally that is how rebates work, you pay first then get a rebate on a portion :D

Too bad they don't do good promos anymore...

I am aiming to spend as much of my Radisson points as possible but they rarely are a good spend option valuewise...

Well yes, but it would be much better if they simply lowered the price rather than creating that rebate mess :)

The double points promo ends today, I'm curious what will they come up with next.

I Am rather suprised there is no status promo with radisson for this year...

Especially with the mess coming up with the split

Or maybe it's because of the split? A promo has to be done by a particular program. So it may be impossible for them to do a promo than crosses the time of the split. Before the split, there's one program which has promos. After the split, there'll be too different programs that'll have promos.