Marriott has also released their new Cash+Points and PointSavers award charts.
The regular award chart will feature awards with no capacity controls or blackouts on standard rooms. Plus every 5th award night is free.
The PointSavers award chart will feature rotating hotels with limited time discounts on the normal award rates.
The Cash+Points award chart is capacity controlled and allows you to save some of your points. In essence what you are doing is buying back points at a rate that is variable based on the award pricing.
In the chart below I’ve calculated just how much you’ll be paying per point saved with a cash+points award compared to a regular award. That price will range from 0.692 cents per point, or cpp, to 2 cents per point. Note that these are Marriott points, so you’ll need to triple those amounts to compare to current Starpoints. That means the cost per Starpoint saved ranges from 2.08 cents to 6 cents.
You can currently buy Starpoints o sale for less than most of these rates until 7/20, so take advantage of this now while you still can.
Come August it will also be a lot harder to rack up points as the Starwood AMEX will be devalued on 8/1 from earning 3 Marriott points per dollar to 2 per dollar, so it may be worth using cash+points for some of the better awards at that point.
Note that there will be an 8th category as well as off-peak and peak awards added in February.
| Hotel Category | August 2018 Chart | August 2018 Cash + Points Chart | August 2018 Pointsavers Chart | February 2019 Chart............. | February 2019 Cash + Points Chart...................................... | February 2019 Pointsavers Chart............ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category 1 | 7,500 | $55+3,500 (1.375 cpp) | 6,000 | 5,000 off-peak 7,500 standard 10,000 peak | $50+2,500 (2 cpp) off-peak $55+3,500 (1.375 cpp) standard $60+4,500 (1.09 cpp) peak | 4,000 off-peak 6,000 standard 8,500 peak |
| Category 2 | 12,500 | $65+6,000 (1 cpp) | 11,000 | 10,000 off-peak 12,500 standard 15,000 peak | $60+5,000 (1.2 cpp) off-peak $65+6,000 (1 cpp) standard $70+6,500 (0.824 cpp) peak | 8,000 off-peak 11,000 standard 13,000 peak |
| Category 3 | 17,500 | $80+8,500 (0.889 cpp) | 16,000 | 15,000 off-peak 17,500 standard 20,000 peak | $70+7,500 (0.933 cpp) off-peak $80+8,500 (0.889 cpp) standard $90+9,000 (0.818 cpp) peak | 12,000 off-peak 16,000 standard 18,000 peak |
| Category 4 | 25,000 | $105+12,000 (0.808 cpp) | 22,500 | 20,000 off-peak 25,000 standard 30,000 peak | $90+10,000 (0.9 cpp) off-peak $105+12,000 (0.808 cpp) $120+13,500 (0.727 cpp) peak | 17,500 off-peak 22,500 standard 27,500 peak |
| Category 5 | 35,000 | $140+17,000 (0.778 cpp) | 32,500 | 30,000 off-peak 35,000 standard 40,000 peak | $120+16,000 (0.857 cpp) off-peak $140+17,000 (0.778 cpp) $165+19,000 (0.786 cpp) peak | 27,500 off-peak 32,500 standard 37,500 peak |
| Category 6 | 50,000 | $190+25,000 (0.76 cpp) | 45,000 | 40,000 off-peak 50,000 standard 60,000 peak | $165+22,000 (0.917 cpp) off-peak $190+25,000 (0.76 cpp) $225+27,500 (0.692 cpp) peak | 35,000 off-peak 45,000 standard 55,000 peak |
| Category 7 | 60,000 | $250+30,000 (0.833 cpp) | 55,000 | 50,000 off-peak 60,000 standard 70,000 peak | $225+27,500 (1 cpp) off-peak $250+30,000 (0.833 cpp) $325+30,000 (0.813 cpp) peak | 45,000 off-peak 55,000 standard 65,000 peak |
| Category 8 | - | - | - | 70,000 off-peak 85,000 standard 100,000 peak | $325+35,000 (0.929 cpp) off-peak $440+42,500 (1.035 cpp) $635+50,000 (1.27 cpp) peak | 65,000 off-peak 80,000 standard 90,000 peak |
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6 Comments On "Breaking Down The New Marriott/Starwood Combined Cash+Points And PointSavers Award Charts"
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Seems like Cash+Points isnt as good as an option as it used to be.
what will happen to the 7 night certificates??
Dan – Marriot claims that it makes sense to transfer all spg points to Marriot now before devaluation. Is that true??
there is no difference transferring the points now versus later. ratio is always 1:3. i guess you are misunderstanding things from the beginning.
Same here what will happened to Flight and Hotel Package? I am buying and combining all my SPG points to get that for category 8 and I would be crying if they get rid of that program.
I have 2 of the 7 night vouchers cat 1-5, I would like to use 1 of them in august and i’m uncertain about the 2nd, what would be the best way to go about it? when should I book, and I would like to upgrade to current category 9 Marriott, (not sure how that will work after august).