When your company is losing one of its best revenue customers and one of its strongest supporters.Mr. French,Mr. Marriott reconsider this move.It will be bad for your company,bad for the customers who have been most loyal to Marriott throughout the years,and is chasing away new Marriott Rewards members.
Originally Posted by
hhoope01
Go over to the Cairo Marriott on the Nile. While eating an evening snack in the CL, I struck up a conversation with the Estonian Ambassador. ^ So if your looking for some decent crowds and they not be Americans, they are out there.
This is definitely the time to look at the awards Marriott currently has (7 nighters, Hoppers, etc) and try to make the best use before the change. Since I have used 4 TP awards within the past 18 months or so plus a very nice RC award stay, my wife's and my accounts together have just over 150K points. And I'm trying to figure out how best to use up those points before the change.
As for me and the rest of this year, about a month ago I sent SPG an elite comp request to Plat. SPG has a nice 20 nights in 3 months gets you a 25K bonus and I've been pursuing that for the 4th quarter. I'll probably look at SPG being my main hotel chain and Marriott being my backup starting next year. I don't need the night credits any more as I've reached the LT Plat milestones. Before this devaluation, I had planned to stay with Marriott. But now, I'm going to try SPG and see how their program works for me. I know some have stated that HH has its own issues, but there is a very nice Homestead Suites hotel close to where I will be traveling most of next year, so I may try it out as well.