Originally Posted by
SkiAdcock
I remember reading either HKG or one of the China Marriotts people thought they were getting charged a fee, but it was some internal accounting thing & the way Marriott/hotel get compensated.
People
were being charged service fees for award stays at 7 properties in China/Hong Kong until the practice stopped in 2007
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