New Marriott Rewards Property Categories and Travel Package Requirements effective Aug '18

[JanT]

Dave, no worries. My husband ended up being here when I made the transfer. It has been an experience to try to move points over, that's for sure. I couldn't believe it took 5 days to transfers points between our Starwood accounts.

I'm sorry, I didn't see your post. I tried calling several times when she was around but the Marriott system was down each time I called. After getting nowhere, I finally transferred the points from her Marriott account to her Starwood account and then to my Starwood account and finally to my Marriott account. Since it took a few days for the transfer between our Starwood accounts, it is too late to do now. I was able to do it online (with her permission of course).

 

[GaryDouglas]

Yesterday was supposedly the last day...

 

[rovitm]

I know it’s all over the blogs, but has there been anything official from Marriott saying existing travel certificates can’t be upgraded or downgraded?

 

[StevenTing]

Figured I’d post this here.

This is not a generous conversion at all.

 

[SMB1]

Figured I’d post this here.

This is not a generous conversion at all.

Oh.... The old 30,000 points in high season trick. Sneaky.

 

[StevenTing]

Lot of angry people over at FT. I would be too. Luckily I was able to downgrade/upgrade and get exactly what I needed.

 

[billymach4]

Lot of angry people over at FT. I would be too. Luckily I was able to downgrade/upgrade and get exactly what I needed.

Can somebody please explain how this affects Marriott Reward Points converting to travel packages five night and Delta SkyMiles points

 

[VacationForever]

Figured I’d post this here.

This is not a generous conversion at all.

Is this official?

 

[Luvtoride]

Is this official?

The web site is back up as I checked a few minutes ago 545 AM here on the East Coast and these are indeed the new category and point totals.

My Hotel I just booked in Paris for a 5night stay in April next year went from 180,000points to 300,000 points! Talk about devaluation! Glad I listened to all of you tuggers and booked a few days ago! Thanks everyone.


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[AlmostRetired]

Figured I’d post this here.

This is not a generous conversion at all.

I saw this posted as someones guess of what us going to happen. Is this off the Marriott website or from otger Marriott source?

 

[ann824]

My five night travel packages still say Category 1-5 and category 6. I wonder if they will change them to category 1-4. I never got the email about attaching them before August 18th. It will be interesting to see what they do to the 5 night packages.

 

[NJDave]

Figured I’d post this here.

This is not a generous conversion at all.

Thanks for posting.

I was able to lock in an old category 6 that moved to a category 5. I'm glad I attached the certificate because with the unfavorable conversion of the old 6 (to a new category 4), I would not be able to reserve it today. I also have an old category 7 that I can not attach yet to the hotel I want. That hotel is going to a new category 5, so I'll be OK with that conversion when it opens up. Thanks to all the reports and advice on TUG, I was able to accomplish what I wanted. I already have the airfare booked as well.

 

[nanceetom]

We had a real mess attaching a category 8, 5 day certificate for a place in Italy. The Marriott rep said since it was going to a 7, she would return points and then book as a 7. I knew this didn't sound correct. She then played around with my husband's points. It took 6-7 hours to finally get a supervisor, who then put the points back in to make it a category 8 and then said, it would be wise to upgrade to a 9. This was at 9:30 EST Friday night. The reservation seems correct, points are not. Question, this is booked for May of 2019, if we want to extend and book same hotel for Ocotber, 2019, will it stay as it is or will it revert to the new point system. When you ask the marriott reps, they all say, 'no problem', yet, we have had so many misinformed comments in the last 2 weeks from them.

 

[jeff76543]

Figured I’d post this here.

This is not a generous conversion at all.

It seems that those who had category 9 certificates (and Tier 1-3) are the only ones who received a generous conversion.

 

[ljmiii]

Figured I’d post this here....This is not a generous conversion at all.

Eh...it is pretty much what I expected except for the Cat 9 conversion which was definitely the high risk/high reward gamble. I suppose in Marriott's mind the conversion IS generous once the 'peak' penalty is taken into account.

 

[SueDonJ]

Thread locked, see this: Official changes to Marriott Rewards program effective 8/18/18