Marriott Bonvoy Points Devaluation: Widespread Increase In Award Costs - Marriott

Marriott Bonvoy Points Devaluation: Widespread Increase In Award Costs

Ben Schlappig — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:53:52 +0000

In recent days, Marriott Bonvoy seems to have implemented a relatively mild but widespread devaluation of points, whereby we’ve seen the cost of award nights at a large percentage of properties increase. The devaluation is significant enough so that it’s probably meaningful for Marriott, but minimal enough so that the company hopes that Bonvoy members…

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Laurel — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:34:50 +0000

For years we have paid for rooms in Europe and use the "free nights for short stays at a US hotel, like a courtyard. Maintaining status with Marriott gets you a lot of perks, particularly M club access abroad with free breakfasts and heavy hors d'oeuvres which can easily serve as dinner.

Bill Lukens — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:56:24 +0000

Just finished a 4100 mile trip to RGV, Texas and noticed the increased points up in all levels we used our "free" night in New Orleans for a treat, and the points required were quite high.

Ryan del mundo — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:11:39 +0000

You've mentioned in previous posts about how the program awards hotels - basically they pay a marginal cost if a hotel isn't full and a fair-ish value rate if they are. So that makes points worth a lot less, ie, if they're paying $40 on a $300 room then the program values a point at 13% of what we would consider a CPP. And yet they still want to devalue! Of course it is the way of the world to devalue.

Ralph4878 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:51:29 +0000

I'm in Bangkok at the moment and was scratching my head as to why the redemption rates seemed higher than 6 months ago...still, was able to book the St. Regis yesterday for 5 nights @ 40,000/night when they were charging over $400/night (inclusive of taxes and service fees) so not too bad!

alan — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:55:48 +0000

i was able to redeem 5000 points in china for night last week. now the cheapest hotel.in points across all of china over next year is 6500

TProphet — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:53:11 +0000

Wyndham is creating a new 45k category in September and shuffling categories then, this is likely to be a significant devaluation.

TProphet — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:52:38 +0000

So, you'll be revising your points valuations downward, right?

Anthony — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:40:25 +0000

How do you do a search without a destination?

BC — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:51:54 +0000

This is another reason why programs like Wyndham's are continuing to be so popular. No dynamic pricing, and the value is great. Of course there's the property portfolio to consider, but Wyndham has some really great stuff internationally.