I have some award nights bookings with SPG points during Christmas holidays, and then some bookings for Easter 2019 as well. At this stage I am not sure which days I need to stay at the SPG property and which days I have to cancel the bookings(these are separate bookings of one day each). As SPG Award nights are cancellable without penalty up to one day before the check-in date, I may not be able to decide which days to cancel until November or early December.
With the recent announcement of SPG-Marriott merger, most of us know that all the SPG points will be converted to Marriott points at 1:3 ratio, in August. I cannot find any information from their merger website/description about what would happen to my points should I cancel my bookings after August. Does anyone know that the points refund to be back to SPG account(is there any SPG account after August?), or will the points be refunded to the new Marriott account according to the 1:3 ratio? And also the amount of points refunded will be based on the SPG categories(ie. actual SPG points used) or the Marriott designated categories(and I can't find the Marriott Rewards categories of SPG properties as well, does anyone know where I can find information about this)?
Thank you in advance.
With the recent announcement of SPG-Marriott merger, most of us know that all the SPG points will be converted to Marriott points at 1:3 ratio, in August. I cannot find any information from their merger website/description about what would happen to my points should I cancel my bookings after August. Does anyone know that the points refund to be back to SPG account(is there any SPG account after August?), or will the points be refunded to the new Marriott account according to the 1:3 ratio? And also the amount of points refunded will be based on the SPG categories(ie. actual SPG points used) or the Marriott designated categories(and I can't find the Marriott Rewards categories of SPG properties as well, does anyone know where I can find information about this)?
Thank you in advance.