Marriott Rewards today announced award category changes that will take place on March 5, 2019.
There are 258 hotels moving up one category and 37 that will move down. Marriott currently has 6,900 hotels open. These changes thus affect roughly 4.3% of properties.
You can access Marriott Rewards here.
Here are the changes:
Number of Properties Moving UP:
Number of Properties Moving DOWN:
Conclusion
Marriott Rewards did a mini (or major) devaluation when they combined the programs last year. Many lower category properties jumped up significantly in number of points required while the former SPG top tier hotels came down significantly.
These changes that will take place on March 5, 2019 are not major if you look at the entire Marriott hotel portfolio. They will, however, tend to affect properties at which members love to redeem at.
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‘Marriott Rewards did a mini (or major) devaluation when they combined the programs last year.’
I remember them being very vocal at the time that many had come down. However, a few weeks after that they quietly put them back up again.
Every 6 month there’s a devaluation. Time to ditch this program entirely.
Seems like it; just like the airlines and many of the other hotel chains. Guess you can always sleep on a park bench.
How much is Charles getting paid to make Marriott better than it really is? Dont listen to this garbage… Marriott is now the AA of hotel chains.
what bullshttt marriott is devaluing points like no other. time to use my 800k points and find another program
Many of the hotel chains keep raising their rates and points per night to stay.
But, all I can say to you is, BuBye!
yea..but not 3-4 times in 2 years. Good riddance and say “bonvoy” to your marriott pesos. You Marriott fanboys go fight over such a small piece of pie. Marriott totally ruined SPG.
This is really disappointing that most properties are again moving up. One advice book all your hotels that will increase before 5th march
Allthough you dont know the exact date in future book as much ahead and then you get the lower rate and you can still ask the hotel to switch dates after march for same points as booked
Be aware that it appears that “points advance” reservations will not guarantee a lock-in at the lower rate; you need to actually have the points, and issue a reward certificate prior to Mar 5.
As for Asia, changes are very bad and eliminate most of the last remaining good value options (especially for Bangkok).
Thanks for the fair and factual assessment. All those who are acting like the category 8 pricing showing up is a surprise and counting those 60ish hotels as also moving up are ridiculous. All programs move categories, and they always move more up than down, so this is no surprise and also not a significant number of properties. I’m actually surprised there aren’t more changes considering all of the SPG properties that moved to Marriott. I imagined there would be lots of adjustments as they figure out which properties will be in the most demand with the mixed program. Any chance of getting the updates/changes in excel?
Lol. Mariott are such douchebags that they havent even organised this list by location (which would be the more convenient choice for 9/10 people). If you ever wanted an example of petty cuntishness, this is it ….