These places where you could get a $300 meal for $114...do you feel like the food was really worth that? Was that really the restaurant in town in which you wanted to dine?

I'm genuinely interested...I've always seen these certs at $99 for 4 courses and thought "OK, I realize the menu prices are such that the deal appears appealing, but I can't think of a Marriott restaurant, on the allowable list, that I really, really want to visit." Whenever I'd think of one that *might* fit the bill, I'd find it on the excluded list.

Don't get me wrong...I eat a lot of hotelfood. Usually late at night, usually a last-minute decision, usually solo at the bar or whatever. Most Marriotts do a very good burger and have a few different beers on tap. And most importantly of all...they usually serve until 11PM or even later. ^ So I'm not bashing hotelfood here...

But I don't think I've ever really premeditated eating hotelfood to the point where I'd pay a large amount of money well ahead of time, unless there are some really amazing Marriott restaurants out there that I don't know about.

I guess that's my question: where are these restaurants? Maybe we already have a thread somewhere for great Marriott restaurants (that are truly hotel-owned and valid with these kinds of offers). In the U.S., one I enjoy is the fish joint in the Seattle Waterfront Marriott...I think it "counts".