LEFT Jan 31, 2010: Sheraton Braintree, MA (becoming Hyatt Place?)
#1
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LEFT Jan 31, 2010: Sheraton Braintree, MA (becoming Hyatt Place?)
I am looking to stay the Braintree Sheraton next month. Was looking to see how platniums are treated. Is there a lounge? If there is not a lounge do they give breakfast coupons?
Thanks,
Reed
Thanks,
Reed
#2
Join Date: May 1999
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I have stayed there a few times and have received no coupons. If there is a lounge, I am unaware of it.
The best I have done is an upgrade to a larger room.
Good luck!
The best I have done is an upgrade to a larger room.
Good luck!
#3
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Israel
Posts: 986
sheraton braintree--promo codes? SPG worthwhile?
we expect to be staying at the braintree sheraton soon. when calling reservations, she asked about promo codes. are there any "out there" to reduce rates, besides AAA? if we aren't big *woods stayers, is it still worthwhile to become SPG?
thanks
thanks
#4
Try Google
I entered "sheraton braintree promo codes" and received many codes. Search through them and you might find something useful.
If you are really only going to stay one night or one time and don't plan on staying anytime in the next year or two, I would recommend that you collect the airline miles with an affiliated airline partner.
Enjoy your stay!
If you are really only going to stay one night or one time and don't plan on staying anytime in the next year or two, I would recommend that you collect the airline miles with an affiliated airline partner.
Enjoy your stay!
#5
Join Date: Mar 2005
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thanks for your idea to do a seach. i didn't find any promos yet, but i am still looking.
#6
Join Date: Apr 2005
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For Starwood Lurker re: Braintree Sheraton
Good morning,
First off let me say that I have long been impressed that Starwood not only had a 'lurker' on this forum, but that it takes a interest in what is said here as well as attempts to resolve issues brought up-would that all travel related companies would do the same thing!
This is more of an FYI-I am presently staying @ the Braintree Sheraton in MA unforunately, thanks to Mother Nature who blew my flights to PHX out of the sky yesterday, until Tues (originally a planned 1 night stay) & while the hotel's website lists it as having the Sheraton Sweet Sleeper Bed, I can testify from personal experience now for 2 nights that our room at least, 2017, certainly doesn't. Not only is there no 'plush pillow top mattress' we have the old broken down ones w/the old fashioned mattress pad that ends up in a wadded knot under your back the first time you roll over in the bed. Plus, the amount of the bed skirt that is dragging on the floor, even though a good amount of it has been tucked up under the mattress, shows the linens don't fit the mattress' currently in use. While I don't know that I'd go as far as calling it false advertising, it certainly isn't the 'Sweet Sleeper Bed' one expects when staying @ a Sheraton claiming to have Sweet Sleepers. Perhaps some adjustement on the website is in order?
On the plus side, the staff have certainly been accommodating in extending our stay, even when I contacted them @ 6am on Saturday after finding out we weren't going anywhere.
First off let me say that I have long been impressed that Starwood not only had a 'lurker' on this forum, but that it takes a interest in what is said here as well as attempts to resolve issues brought up-would that all travel related companies would do the same thing!
This is more of an FYI-I am presently staying @ the Braintree Sheraton in MA unforunately, thanks to Mother Nature who blew my flights to PHX out of the sky yesterday, until Tues (originally a planned 1 night stay) & while the hotel's website lists it as having the Sheraton Sweet Sleeper Bed, I can testify from personal experience now for 2 nights that our room at least, 2017, certainly doesn't. Not only is there no 'plush pillow top mattress' we have the old broken down ones w/the old fashioned mattress pad that ends up in a wadded knot under your back the first time you roll over in the bed. Plus, the amount of the bed skirt that is dragging on the floor, even though a good amount of it has been tucked up under the mattress, shows the linens don't fit the mattress' currently in use. While I don't know that I'd go as far as calling it false advertising, it certainly isn't the 'Sweet Sleeper Bed' one expects when staying @ a Sheraton claiming to have Sweet Sleepers. Perhaps some adjustement on the website is in order?
On the plus side, the staff have certainly been accommodating in extending our stay, even when I contacted them @ 6am on Saturday after finding out we weren't going anywhere.
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Have a read of this thread to get Lurker's and other folks thoughts on this issue.
Same situation different hotel.
Same situation different hotel.
#8
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Good morning,
First off let me say that I have long been impressed that Starwood not only had a 'lurker' on this forum, but that it takes a interest in what is said here as well as attempts to resolve issues brought up-would that all travel related companies would do the same thing!
First off let me say that I have long been impressed that Starwood not only had a 'lurker' on this forum, but that it takes a interest in what is said here as well as attempts to resolve issues brought up-would that all travel related companies would do the same thing!
He's a true credit to starwood.
#9
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Not sure why you wouldn't just go and talk with the GENERAL MANAGER while you're at the hotel and file a complaint with customer service (as noted on the sticky at the top of this forum?)
Honestly though, knowing what's going on with others throughout the country and through the NE due to the storm, doesn't this seem a bit "small?".
I know that there are MANY others who have had to stay at the airport due to the mess in the NE.
Honestly though, knowing what's going on with others throughout the country and through the NE due to the storm, doesn't this seem a bit "small?".
I know that there are MANY others who have had to stay at the airport due to the mess in the NE.
#10
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Not sure why you wouldn't just go and talk with the GENERAL MANAGER while you're at the hotel and file a complaint with customer service (as noted on the sticky at the top of this forum?)
Honestly though, knowing what's going on with others throughout the country and through the NE due to the storm, doesn't this seem a bit "small?".
I know that there are MANY others who have had to stay at the airport due to the mess in the NE.
Honestly though, knowing what's going on with others throughout the country and through the NE due to the storm, doesn't this seem a bit "small?".
I know that there are MANY others who have had to stay at the airport due to the mess in the NE.
#11
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Good luck.
Sincerely,
William R. Sanders
Customer Service Coordinator
Starwood Preferred Services
[email protected]
#12
Join Date: Jan 2005
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David Beckham on Sheraton Braintree Hotel
Apparently, English soccer celeb David Beckham was appalled by the Sheraton Braintree Hotel when he stayed there a couple of years back. In a new book on the fancy boy’s first seasons with the Los Angeles Galaxy, the business-class hotel is derided as maybe “the worst Sheraton in America,’’
http://www.boston.com/news/local/mas...n_penalty_box/
http://www.boston.com/news/local/mas...n_penalty_box/
#13
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Apparently, English soccer celeb David Beckham was appalled by the Sheraton Braintree Hotel when he stayed there a couple of years back. In a new book on the fancy boy’s first seasons with the Los Angeles Galaxy, the business-class hotel is derided as maybe “the worst Sheraton in America,’’
http://www.boston.com/news/local/mas...n_penalty_box/
http://www.boston.com/news/local/mas...n_penalty_box/
If every Sheraton could be as nice as the Sheraton Duluth (Duluth!) we would have much less to complain about.
#14
Join Date: Apr 2005
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I didn't read his quote but I have had a few stays here out of necessity and have to say that this property is just shameful. The treatment as a whole sucks. The beds and rooms are beat up. The staff was always rude and Platinum upgrade rooms never seemed to be available even when the hotel was empty.
#15
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I didn't read his quote but I have had a few stays here out of necessity and have to say that this property is just shameful. The treatment as a whole sucks. The beds and rooms are beat up. The staff was always rude and Platinum upgrade rooms never seemed to be available even when the hotel was empty.
Not quite as sketch as my last trip to FLL, or the Sheraton Universal California (IMHO that last one gets the prize!) but pretty miserable and a blemish on the brand. Go stay for a couple days at the Sheraton Centro Historico in Mexico city, then the next night at the Braintree - head scratching will ensue How can these be the same brand?!?!?!