A (better) list of Starwood hotels changing categories in 2015

Starwood Preferred Guest has announced its annual category changes, which will affect a total of 255 properties that will either move up or down one category. These changes will go into effect on March 10, 2015, so if a hotel you want to book is moving up in category, you should definitely book it before that deadline. The PDF outlining the changes isn’t very well organized, so for the sake of convenience, I’ve sorted all 255 hotels by the category they are moving from/to.

Hotels Moving Up

Category 6 to 7

• W Retreat Koh Samui
• The St. Regis Punta Mita Resort
• The St. Regis San Francisco

Category 5 to 6

• Westin Bahrain City Centre
• Sheraton Doha Resort & Convention Hotel 
• The St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort, Abu Dhabi
• Le Parker Méridien Palm Springs
• Palace Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel, San Francisco
• The Liberty, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Boston
• The Phoenician, a Luxury Collection Resort, Scottsdale
• Westin Palo Alto
• Westin Verasa Napa
• The St. Regis Houston
• W Boston
• W San Diego

Category 4 to 5

• Sheraton Abuja Hotel
• The Westin Colonnade, Coral Gables
• Westin San Francisco Airport
• Four Points by Sheraton Dhaka, Gulshan
• Westin Blue Bay Resort
• Westin Resort Guam
• The Westin Lagunamar Ocean Resort Villas & Spa, Cancun
• Aloft Cupertino
• Westin San Diego Gaslamp Quarter
• Four Points by Sheraton Cupertino
• Westin Seattle
• Le Meridien Dallas, The Stoneleigh
• Sheraton Lincoln Harbor Hotel
• Westin St. Louis
• Westin South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa
• Sheraton Seattle Hotel
• The Westin Austin at The Domain
• Westin Governor Morris, Morristown
• The Westin Houston Downtown
• Westin Houston, Memorial City
• Westin New Orleans Canal Place
• The Westin Pasadena
• Westin Portland
• Westin Washington National Harbor

Category 3 to 4

• The Westin Hefei Baohe
• Le Méridien Mahabaleshwar Resort & Spa
• The Westin Zhujiajian Resort, Zhoushan
• Le Meridien Jakarta
• Sheraton Bali Kuta Resort
• Plaza Athénée Bangkok, A Royal Méridien Hotel
• Sheraton Bogota Hotel
• Sheraton Mexico City Maria Isabel Hotel
• Four Points by Sheraton Miraflores
• Sheraton Old San Juan Hotel & Casino
• Four Points by Sheraton Prince George
• Aloft Denver Downtown
• Sheraton Chicago Northbrook Hotel
• Aloft Orlando Downtown
• Element Houston Vintage Park
• Element Lexington
• Sheraton Columbia Downtown Hotel
• Four Points by Sheraton Boston Logan Airport
• Four Points by Sheraton Destin-Fort Walton Beach
• Le Méridien Charlotte
• Four Points by Sheraton Hotel & Suites San Francisco Airport
• Four Points by Sheraton Lousiville Airport
• Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel
• Sheraton Ann Arbor Hotel
• Four Points by Sheraton Nashville Airport
• Sheraton Cerritos Hotel
• Four Points by Sheraton Philadelphia City Center
• Sheraton Bloomington Hotel
• Sheraton Burlington Hotel & Conference Center
• Aloft Lexington
• Sheraton Fort Worth Hotel and Spa
• Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles Hotel
• Westin O’Hare
• Sheraton McKinney Hotel
• Sheraton Minneapolis Midtown Hotel
• Westin Huntsville
• Sheraton Park Hotel at the Anaheim Resort
• Sheraton Pasadena Hotel
• Westin Cleveland Downtown
• Sheraton Pleasanton Hotel
• Sheraton Raleigh Hotel
• The Tremont Chicago Hotel at Magnificent Mile

Category 2 to 4

• Aloft Detroit at The David Whitney
• Four Points by Sheraton San Jose – Silicon Valley

Category 2 to 3

• Four Points by Sheraton Beijing, Haidian Hotel & Serviced Apartments 
• Sheraton Westport Chalet Hotel St. Louis
• Sheraton Jacksonville Hotel
• Aloft Frisco
• Sheraton Shantou Hotel
• Sheraton Tampa East Hotel
• The Westin Ningbo
• Sheraton Suites Orlando Airport
• Sheraton Birmingham Hotel
• The Westin Pune Koregaon Park
• Sheraton Metairie – New Orleans Hotel
• Aloft Arundel Mills
• Sheraton Bandung Hotel & Towers
• Four Points by Sheraton Barranquilla
• Sheraton Lima Hotel & Convention Center
• Four Points by Sheraton Waterloo – Kitchener Hotel & Suites
• Sheraton Madison Hotel
• Aloft Bolingbrook
• Sheraton Orlando North Hotel
• Sheraton Suites Tampa Airport Westshore
• Aloft Tampa Downtown (Note: This is listed on SPG’s PDF file as a Category 2 hotel, when it’s in fact Category 4)
• Sheraton Suites Galleria-Atlanta
• Four Points by Sheraton Charleston
• Four Points by Sheraton College Station
• Aloft San Antonio Airport
• Four Points by Sheraton Houston Hobby Airport
• Four Points by Sheraton Houston Southwest
• Sheraton Albuquerque Airport Hotel
• Four Points by Sheraton San Diego
• Four Points by Sheraton Tempe
• Sheraton Augusta Hotel
• Sheraton Colonial Boston North Hotel & Conference Center
• The Westin Chicago Northwest
• Sheraton Westport Plaza Hotel St. Louis
• Sheraton Sioux Falls & Convention Center

Category 1 to 2

• Aloft Beijing, Haidian
• Four Points by Sheraton Hangzhou, Binjiang
• Four Points by Sheraton Taizhou, Yuhuan
• Sheraton Hefei Xinzhan Hotel
• Sheraton Shanghai Waigaoqiao Hotel
• Four Points by Sheraton Dehradun
• Four Points by Sheraton New Delhi, Airport Highway
• Sheraton Senggigi Beach Resort
• Aloft Jacksonville Airport
• Aloft Winchester
• Four Points by Sheraton Oklahoma City Airport

Hotels Moving Down

Category 7 to 6

• Schloss Fuschl, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa, Fuschlsee-Salzburg
• W Paris – Opéra
• Vedema, a Luxury Collection Resort, Santorini
• The St. Regis Rome
• Sheraton Steamboat Resort Villas
• The Westin Ka’anapali Ocean Resort Villas

Category 6 to 5

• Sheraton Lagos Hotel
• ITC Grand Bharat, a Luxury Collection Resort, Gurgaon, New Delhi Capital Region
• Le Méridien Taipei
• Hotel Grande Bretagne, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Athens
• Hotel National, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Moscow
• The Westin Maui Resort & Spa, Ka’anapali
• Sheraton Zurich Neues Schloss Hotel
• Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa
• The Westin Kierland Villas, Scottsdale
• The Westin Riverfront Mountain Villas, Beaver Creek Mountain

Category 5 to 4

• Le Méridien Ibom Hotel & Golf Resort
• Le Méridien Vienna
• Ajman Saray, a Luxury Collection Resort, Ajman
• Le Méridien Al Aqah Beach Resort
• Le Méridien Grand Hotel Nuremberg
• The Royal Begonia, a Luxury Collection Resort, Sanya
• Sheraton Towers Singapore
• Le Méridien Munich
• The Westin Grand Frankfurt
• Hotel Excelsior, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Naples
• The Westin Dragonara Resort, Malta
• Sheraton Amsterdam Airport Hotel and Conference Center
• Four Points by Sheraton Curitiba
• Hotel Bristol, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Odessa
• Four Points by Sheraton Macaé
• Sheraton da Bahia Hotel, Salvador
• Villarrica Park Lake, a Luxury Collection Hotel & Spa, Villarrica
• Le Westin Montreal
• Le Westin Resort & Spa, Tremblant, Quebec
• The Westin Ottawa
• Sheraton Desert Oasis Villas, Scottsdale
• Sheraton Mountain Vista Villas, Avon/Vail Valley
• The Westin Arlington Gateway
• Vistana’s Beach Club

Category 4 to 3

• Sheraton Tirana Hotel
• Sheraton Pretoria Hotel
• The Westin Nanjing
• Sheraton Changsha Hotel
• Sheraton Chongqing Hotel
• ITC Gardenia, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Bengaluru
• Sheraton Guiyang Hotel
• ITC Maurya, a Luxury Collection Hotel, New Delhi
• Yokohama Bay Sheraton Hotel & Towers
• Sheraton Langkawi Beach Resort
• Sheraton Hsinchu Hotel
• Aloft Brussels Schuman
• Sheraton Brussels Hotel
• Sheraton Prague Charles Square Hotel
• Four Points by Sheraton Munich Olympiapark
• Hotel Elephant, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Weimar
• Sheraton Munich Westpark Hotel
• Sheraton Offenbach Hotel
• Le Méridien Budapest
• Sheraton Rhodes Resort
• Four Points by Sheraton Milan Center
• Convento do Espinheiro, a Luxury Collection Hotel & Spa, Evora
• Sheraton Lisboa Hotel & Spa
• Sheraton Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport Hotel
• Metropol Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Belgrade
• Sheraton Tunis Hotel
• Sheraton Skyline Hotel London Heathrow
• Four Points by Sheraton Saskatoon
• Sheraton Madrid Mirasierra Hotel & Spa
• Sheraton Buganvilias Resort and Convention Center
• Le Méridien Versailles
• Sheraton Baltimore Washington Airport Hotel – BWI
• Sheraton Hartford South Hotel
• The Westin Baltimore Washington Airport – BWI
• Sheraton Mahwah Hotel
• Sheraton St. Paul Woodbury Hotel
• Westin Los Angeles Airport

Category 4 to 2

• Sheraton Cairo Hotel & Casino

Category 3 to 2

• Le Méridien Cairo Airport
• Le Méridien Ile Maurice
• Four Points by Sheraton Hainan, Sanya
• Four Points by Sheraton Shanghai, Daning
• Sheraton Dongguan Hotel
• Sheraton Xiamen Hotel
• Four Points by Sheraton Navi Mumbai, Vashi
• Sheraton Zhengzhou Hotel
• ITC Grand Chola, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Chennai
• ITC Sonar, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Kolkata
• Le Méridien Bangalore
• ITC Windsor, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Bengaluru
• Sheraton Munich Airport Hotel
• Sheraton New Delhi Hotel
• Four Points by Sheraton Panoramahaus Dornbirn
• Sheraton Zagreb Hotel
• Sheraton Padova Hotel & Conference Center
• The Westin Warsaw
• Sheraton Roma Hotel & Conference Center
• Sheraton Poznan Hotel
• Four Points by Sheraton Barcelona Diagonal
• Sheraton Fuerteventura Beach, Golf & Spa Resort Canary Isle
• Sheraton Gran Canaria Salobre Golf Resort
• Aloft Liverpool
• Sheraton Heathrow Hotel
• Sheraton Cordoba Hotel
• Four Points by Sheraton Los Angeles
• Sheraton Tucuman Hotel
• Aloft Bogota Airport
• Aloft Panama
• Four Points by Sheraton Montevideo
• Aloft Montréal Airport
• Four Points by Sheraton Lévis Convention Centre
• Element Vaughan Southwest
• Four Points by Sheraton London
• Four Points by Sheraton Mississauga Meadowvale
• Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel
• Four Points by Sheraton Québec Resort
• Four Points by Sheraton Victoria Gateway
• Sheraton Montreal Airport Hotel
• Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel
• Aloft BWI Baltimore Washington International Airport
• Element Hanover – Lebanon
• Four Points by Sheraton Bakersfield
• Sheraton Herndon Dulles Airport Hotel
• Sheraton Lisle Hotel

Category 2 to 1

• Four Points by Sheraton Bijie 
• Sheraton Changzhou Wujin Hotel
• Sheraton Guilin Hotel
• Aloft San Jose Hotel, Costa Rica
• Sheraton Shenyang South City Hotel
• Four Points by Sheraton Bengaluru, Whitefield
• Sheraton Langfang Chaobai River Hotel
• ITC Rajputana, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Jaipur
• Le Meridien Coimbatore
• Le Royal Méridien Chennai
• Four Points by Sheraton Puchong
• Sheraton Athlone Hotel
• Sheraton Catania Hotel & Conference Center
• Four Points by Sheraton Detroit Metro Airport