They are pushing the Flex packages HARD. They offered to convert our current ownership and double the Options for what seemed to be a reasonable price, in comparison to regular developer prices. But we know we can get better deals for our needs on the resale market. They did allude to the ILG merger as bringing in all those resorts into the same network as the Starwood resorts, but when I pinned them down to a specific answer, that turned out to be not quite accurate. It will change from being a deposit/exchange system to a straight up point based system, which puts all Starwood ownership on equal footing in the II network. Also, the point tiers for 3 and 4 star elite are expected to increase. No information about the Marriott takeover on the hotel end, but they expect little to change in the SPG world. They did offer us a nice Explorer package plus Stars Points, which we took because it works well with our future plans.
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