More hotel category award night changes in the news!
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The big news that came out over the weekend is yet another hotel program devaluation. Carlson Rezidor Hotels Club Carlson (better
known as the program for Radisson Hotels, Country Inns, Park Plaza
etc.) has released their list of hotel category changes for 2015. Almost
every major hotel chain has put out category changes this year from the
likes of IHG Rewards Club to Starwood Preferred Guest and others
inbetween. The reason this could be considered a devaluation is that
more hotels (over 200) are going up in price than are going down (over 100) but in general its
not as major as it is in the U.S. as they had the beautiful perk of a
free night with the U.S. based Club Carlson Visa where if you redeemed
for one night with points you would get a second for free. That benefit
for them ends on June 1st, the same day these category changes kick in.
Since us Canadians never had that advantage the major hit for us are for
those travelling to Europe who were looking to use Club Carlson points
as that is where most of the hotels going up in categories are taking
place. The dreaded category 7 hotels which were introduced with The last change from Club Carlson came in March 2014
goes from only 11 hotels to 78 hotels with this change and more than 40
of those are in Europe. Luckily, here in Canada the changes aren’t that
bad as we only see two hotels go up a category and two go down. You can find the entire list of hotel changes here.
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| Carlson Rezidor locations in Canada that are changing on June 1st |
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