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Starwood changes award categories for 250+ Hotels

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SPG category changes are coming into effect from March 6, 2018. This year there is a reasonable balance with about half the hotels changing categories moving up and another half moving down. Here are all the details you should know before making your next SPG award reservation.

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Marriott Rewards guts chart: 1000+ Marriott Hotels expensive

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Marriott Rewards has announced hotel category changes for 2018. Over 1300 hotels are changing categories, and 1100 hotels out of those are going to become more expensive for redemptions. All the hotels in India changing categories will become expensive.

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Marriott paid us for staying with them

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One reason to stay with a hotel chain, again and again, is a sense of familiarity and the guarantee that loyal guests will be looked after well. But what happens when a Marriott hotel forgets about your Platinum benefits and the hotel staff pretend all is well. Marriott Rewards has a compensation procedure in place for these service lapse.

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IHG PointBreaks introduces higher redemptions

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IHG Rewards Club will be revamping their popular PointBreaks promotion in 2018. Coming from the Headquarters, the news states that redemptions will now be available at a higher number of points per night, but the good news is, Points+Cash will also find its way to the promotion.

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JetPrivilege will discontinue ties with Emirates and GulfAir

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JetPrivilege partners over 30 airlines around the world at the moment. They will discontinue an earn and burn partnership with Emirates and GulfAir in the coming days. This would mean a couple of more partner airlines going away after American Airlines, United, Turkish, Lufthansa and Austrian.

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