{"id":887,"date":"2013-04-27T06:39:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T13:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/giddyforpoints\/?p=887"},"modified":"2013-04-27T06:39:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T13:39:34","slug":"club-carlson-changes-award-categories-for-some-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/giddyforpoints\/2013\/04\/club-carlson-changes-award-categories-for-some-hotels\/","title":{"rendered":"Club Carlson Changes Award Categories for some Hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loyaltylobby.com\/2013\/04\/26\/club-carlson-2013-award-category-changes\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=club-carlson-2013-award-category-changes\" target=\"_blank\">Loyalty Lobby <\/a>announced that Club Carlson, the hotel that was making all the right moves in terms of their new credit card that offered 85k points + bonus nights and their recent BOGO promotions, is changing some of their hotel&#8217;s categories.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily this isn&#8217;t a <a href=\"http:\/\/boardingarea.com\/blogs\/viewfromthewing\/2013\/02\/19\/hiltons-dramatic-devaluation-comes-march-28-time-to-unload-my-hhonors-points\/\" target=\"_blank\">devaluation like the Hilton hotels<\/a> as the max points for a hotel is still 50k for their category 6. I would have been mad if they raised the max points since I&#8217;m racking them up!<\/p>\n<p>These changes aren&#8217;t too bad and they actually had more hotels moving down in categories than up so this is a positive. Nine Cat 6 moved down to Cat 5 and and thirty six moved from Cat 5 to Cat 4. 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