Here’s How Marriott Hotels Play Games with Award Inventory to Deny You a Room

Aug 23 2019

Starwood Preferred Guest had a policy they called ‘true redemption’. It wasn’t just no blackouts, where a hotel put certain dates off limit for using points. It was no capacity controls. That meant if any standard room was available for sale you could use points to book that room.

Now with Marriott Bonvoy it seems some hotels are able to play games they weren’t able to before.

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Why is Chase’s Sapphire Preferred Offering a 60,000 Point Initial Bonus?

Aug 22 2019

The Chase Sapphire Preferred Card was the ‘it’ card several years ago and it remains just as good. It had a generous initial bonus, earned double points on travel and dining, came with primary collision coverage when you rent cards, and points transfer to a variety of airline and hotel points programs.

So why the need to increase the bonus to 60,000 points after $4000 spend in the first 3 months of cardmembership?

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