{"id":14260,"date":"2022-12-26T10:10:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T10:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=14260"},"modified":"2022-12-26T10:10:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T10:10:52","slug":"warning-marriott-to-remove-redemption-cap-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2022\/12\/26\/warning-marriott-to-remove-redemption-cap-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Marriott to remove redemption cap in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Writing this from a two-bedroom apartment in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/st-regis-shanghai-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">St Regis Shanghai Jing An<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/st-regis-jing-an-living-room.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/st-regis-jing-an-living-room.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14259\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/st-regis-jing-an-living-room.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/st-regis-jing-an-living-room-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/st-regis-jing-an-living-room-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Marriott introduced <em>Flexible Redemption Pricing<\/em> in March 2022, and we have been getting used to how it works in the last nine months. However, there&#8217;s a snag that most people may have forgotten or overlooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the new policy was introduced, the price cap of most hotels (i.e. the peak pricing from the old system) were respected, with the exception of a few properties that added a new premium. <strong>However, no caps are to be enforced for 2023 stays at any Marriott hotel.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should we expect a huge increase across many hotels globally? Probably not, as the redemption rates have been adjusting themselves in the last nine months so that they already reflect what Marriott thinks it&#8217;s appropriate to charge you for now, more or less. Therefore I don&#8217;t think a big devaluation is due anytime soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, there are hotels that represent outsize redemption value which makes them really popular, and they are the ones more likely at risk. For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/courtyard-oxford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Courtyard Oxford City Centre<\/a> used to be the best redemption option in the UK, starting from only 10,000 points per night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the dynamic pricing was introduced, its cap was raised to 20,000 points.  For some 2023 dates however, the rate goes to as high as 21,000 points now:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/courtyard-oxford-city-centre-21k.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/courtyard-oxford-city-centre-21k.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/courtyard-oxford-city-centre-21k.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/courtyard-oxford-city-centre-21k-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not a massive devaluation, but more are to come. If you have speculative travel plans for next year, and are not short of Marriott points, consider locking in some rooms now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Writing this from a two-bedroom apartment in St Regis Shanghai Jing An.) Marriott introduced Flexible Redemption Pricing in March 2022, and we have been getting used&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriott-bonvoy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14260"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14266,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14260\/revisions\/14266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}