I've been corporate preferred for a few years since I dropped from Gold. From looking at the posts of the last couple years, it *looks* like being corporate preferred still should get you a slightly better room?

Lately with the nature of my business travel I haven't given much thought to the room I've been getting, but today I'm at the Sheraton Palo Alto in a 2Q room (I requested 1K) facing the parking lot and back of the hotel, with the CalTrain running by my window every few minutes. Is this something that I should have asked about or raised at checkin?

I don't like being whiny to hotel staff about my room, but I felt like I got a worse than average room.