Marriott Bonvoy pros: I was looking at hotels with my points this morning for a future stay but didn’t book. I looked again just now and the points is drastically different. Is this common? For cost of points to fluctuate in a day? If so- when is the “best” time to book?

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Same as flight tickets: Tuesday afternoon

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Not for points stays...

Theoretically redemption values should remain constant if the dates are the same. Around 2019, Marriott started a tiered redemption scheme with peak, standard, and off-peak dates. I thought those were generally constant, but they may recalculate and adjust rates dynamically.

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No, they set peak/off-peak at the beginning of the year so there’s something else going on. Maybe the base room is sold out and you’re seeing only suites?

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Would also differ based on type of room (club level, view etc)

I always thought it was based on a set rate and remained that rate based on peak/not peak. However I recently booked a trip and one day decided to see if the points changed for the same dates and they went down a bit so I rebooked.

Thank you!

Interesting. I wonder what they’re dynamic pricing is based on

The room I used for comparison is the same 🧐

Lots of dynamic pricing of points, and hotel negotiations as well. Just got 9 nights for my son for 92500 points that are listed for 15,000 a night. Original quote a week in advance was normal 1 free night after 4, but at 15,000 a night. Two days before he left it dropped from 120000 to 92500.

Wow! Good to know

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