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I just discovered another MAJOR (well hidden) FLAW in the new Marriott points program. Since they vary the number of points required for a reservation depending on time of year, there is a good likelihood that you would have to use MORE points to come back into your home resort than the point value they assign to you for your unit. For example, I own a 1BR ocean view unit at the Kauai Beach Club. Marriott is assigning a value of only 2775 points for this unit, even though it is considered a Platinum season property (i.e., all weeks are peak weeks). However, when I use their calculator for reserving back into the property, it requires 3175 points to reserve in February, 2011. In other words, I would not have enough points to trade back to my home resort.