Besides missing the point, rln needs to spare us the sarcasm.

Also it would help if his example was based on more than one property. Marriott has thousands.

And he evidently missed the part where we all stated that if GMs were able to meet their budgets & still keep lounges open (or whatever other perks they chose to offer, ala Stanford Ren) they should be allowed to do so. Marriott's taking that option away.

But with rates staying the same & offerings being cut, as Jon Maimon said, the price differential isn't necessarily worth it for FS. And as others have said, since - in the same economic climate - other hotel chains are keeping their lounges open on the weekends, they're changing their stay patterns to go to those chains on weekends now, whereas before Marriott would have gotten the revenue.

Now, about that $140 bathrobe OVMV.

Cheers.