Noted program drawbacks included the fact that points expire after two years without activity, rooms at higher -
tier hotels cost a lot of points and that the elite membership levels are more difficult to reach than with Starwood Preferred Guest or Hilton HHonors.
However, their top
tier hotel costs 70,000 points / night, which means this promotion is not even earning you one reward night at their top tier hotel.
Not exact matches
A free night in a
Tier 1
hotel costs 30,00 points, and a
Tier 5
costs 70,000; these figures can help you see the range of values.
A free night in a
Tier 1
hotel costs 30,00 points, and a
Tier 5
costs 70,000; these figures can help you see the range of values.
The table below displays the number of Marriott points required for each alternative in these packages; depending on the number of miles desired and category of
hotel (the «
Tier» rows represent the
cost for Ritz - Carlton properties).
At a bottom -
tier Category 1
hotel it would
cost 9,000 points per night.
This list of
hotels may include a top
tier hotel, where a room could
cost $ 500 per night.
In March 2014 Club Carlson introduced a new top -
tier in its program which immediately raised the
cost of an award night (at one of the better
hotels) from 50,000 to 70,000 points per night — a staggering 40 % price increase!
The only other significant move appears to be that Cassa
Hotel NY 45th Street is moving from being a top - tier category 7 hotel (costing 70,000 points / night) to a category 6 hotel (costing 50,000 points / ni
Hotel NY 45th Street is moving from being a top -
tier category 7
hotel (costing 70,000 points / night) to a category 6 hotel (costing 50,000 points / ni
hotel (
costing 70,000 points / night) to a category 6
hotel (costing 50,000 points / ni
hotel (
costing 50,000 points / night).
Two nights at a top -
tier Hyatt
hotel would
cost 60,000 Hyatt Gold Passport points and, to purchase 60,000 points in this promotion, would
cost you $ 1,128 (actually you'd be purchasing 47,000 points + 14,100 bonus for that amount so you'd actually get 61,100 points).
Top
tier Ritz - Carlton
hotels cost 70,000 points per night.
The standard travel package
costs are listed in the table below («Category» refers to Marriott
hotels, «
Tier» refers to Ritz - Carlton
hotels):
I stopped being a fan of Club Carlson after it raised the
cost of top -
tier awards by 40 %, put most of the
hotels I'd like to stay at in the top -
tier category and then removed my free 2nd night benefit that came with my Club Carlson Visa...... but I don't hold a grudge
Most
hotel programs operate a «
tier system,» where
hotels cost the amount of points associated with the
tier or category in which they are placed.
I especially love the
hotel partners like Hyatt, because the transfer ratio is awesome — just 30,000 Ultimate Rewards points can get you a night in a top -
tier Hyatt property that could easily
cost well over $ 1,000 per night in hot destinations such as the Maldives or Paris.