SPG category change is announced
According to FT thread, SPG lurker has announced new SPG award category for 2011, the change will be effective in March 1st, 2011.Total 84 moving up, 93 moving down
The list is much better than I thought, I was expecting massive amount of properties in China will have increase in categories. SPG changed calculation method for category changes, they used to use past year annual room revenue to calculate, now they are using forward ADR.
There is a hotel surprised me a little, Aloft Beijing, from cat 2 to cat 1. The hotel is selling 650++ per night year round, but they move down to category 1 instead. I guess they are just trying to get more revenue.
Anyway, overall, not that bad. book now for hotel will increase in categories, and later for decrease in categories, but do remember, if you make your booking now and the hotel changes to higher category, any change after March 1st will require more points.
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