My wife and I visit our daughter in Boulder several times a year. We always visit on weekends. We used to stay at the Marriott and get two CL rooms at a cost of about $600 a night for both rooms. Our total spend was typically $1200 or $1800 for the weekend.

Now that the lounge is closed on weekends, we stay at the Homewood suites which is yards away from a grocery store. The first thing we do after dropping our bags in the room is walk over, buy a few bags of groceries, and turn the kitchen in the suite into our own little mini lounge. We spend $600-$900 for the weekend.

It turns out we actually prefer the Homewood suites. By closing the lounge, Marriott not only lost our business while they close the lounge on weekends, they got us to survey the market, and lost us permanently. We still stay at Marriotts outside of Boulder, but we are much more aware of other options than we used to be.