For further reading, here's an example of Loyalty Lobby finding
an odd premium award night price in Shanghai back in 2012, and here's a somewhat dated Points Guy mention of the same phenomenon.
Odd premium award pricing results from low premium room rates and high internal valuations.
In the last month or so, while planning my winter jaunt to Italy, I've been noticing
some odd premium award night pricing, and today finally decided to get to the bottom of it.
It's still unclear to me which currency internal valuations are denominated in and how often they're adjusted; sudden currency fluctuations may open up more opportunities for
odd premium award nights, but I haven't been able to test that yet.
Not exact matches
I've written before about «
odd» pricing of Hilton
premium room
awards.
That's what I'm calling an «
odd» price for
premium award nights.