No one's putting a gun to your head, at least I hope not. All I'm saying is they are the same exact 20% off public rate promotions (albeit diff. names) and Marriott Concierge has completely reversed their position. There's no way around it, the two posts are 100% a contradiction. I understand that in this promo we have a definitive answer, as I wrote earlier. All I care about is that this doesn't change when the same 20% publicly listed promo rate rolls out next April or May. I wish somebody would've explained this to the hotels and csrs who turned me down last year, not that big a deal as I just called again and went to diff. hotels, so I worked it anyway.
Now if we can only get this same definitive answer for a publicly listed package. Such as when you put in no code and the top three rates are packages and the regular weekend rate is more expensive. I even tried calling the hotel and telling them that I didn't want the package (free drinks and internet...) just the rate but got turned down. But alas perhaps I hope for too much.