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Marriott Rewards makes redemption rate changes

27 Feb 2012 by BusinessTraveller

Marriott Rewards has published a list of redemption category changes across its portfolio, with rates increasing for around 500 properties including the recently opened St Pancras Rennaisance London.

The group announced the news on frequent flyer forum flyertalk.com, along with a PDF of all properties affected by the changes.

Around 100 hotels (three per cent of the group’s global portfolio) will see their redemption rates decrease by one category, while over 500 (15 per cent) will move up one category.

Rate reduction examples include the Amman Marriott Hotel and Miami Airport Marriott, which both move from category five to category four. However hotels moving up a category include Grosvenor House, a Marriott Hotel, the London Marriott Hotel Marble Arch, and the St Pancras Renaissance London Hotel, all of which move from category seven to category eight.

Selected Ritz-Carlton hotels also see their categories changed, for example the The Ritz-Carlton Dubai which moves from category four to three within the Ritz-Carlton Rewards scheme, and the Ritz-Carlton New York Battery Park moving in the opposite direction.

Marriott said that as with other loyalty programmes, the group “performs an annual audit on the categories that are assigned to each property”, with changes based on the number of redemption nights at that property in the prior year.

It added that “Marriott Rewards makes an effort to minimise these changes to maintain stability across the portfolio of properties”, and said that this year 82 per cent of its properties will remain unchanged.

For more information visit marriott.com.

Report by Mark Caswell

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