After the Carlson took away the last night free benefit from the credit card, many people (myself included) were leaning toward or cancelling the card. With today's devaluation, where every decent Carlson (Rad Blu) in the US is raised to Category 7 (70k points per night) and most of the nice European properties went up a category or two - is anybody going to bother with Club Carlson program and/or credit card going forward?
I got some nice value redeeming in Philly, NYC, Aruba, and Rome (coming up). Can't see myself using the card or the program going forward. It almost feels like Carlson decided loyal customers aren't really worth it to them... or they're trying to get rid of the MS crowd. Either way, I think the annual fees on the cards just became a lot harder to justify.
I got some nice value redeeming in Philly, NYC, Aruba, and Rome (coming up). Can't see myself using the card or the program going forward. It almost feels like Carlson decided loyal customers aren't really worth it to them... or they're trying to get rid of the MS crowd. Either way, I think the annual fees on the cards just became a lot harder to justify.