Since the Marriott Concierge is watching and listening to this thread, I would just like to say something to you and the people who make decisions at Marriott.

My husband travels for business and they pay his expenses. He has complete choice over where he stays. He had 80+ nights at Marriott last year and the vast majority were at FS properties in the US.

The absolute only reason we choose Marriott for business is to accumulate points to take nice vacations together.

What makes a Marriott vacation stay nice? A decent room, of course, and the extras that up until now have been provided to Platinum Rewards members on a leisure stay.

If, the next time we check into a Marriott on points, there is no lounge on the weekend, no breakfast, and only a few chips and limp veggies during the weeknights we will have no reason to continue to choose Marriott for business stays. It is that simple for us. Our leisure stay experience drives the business purchase.

Please return the lounge experience to a reason to come through Marriott's door.