Originally Posted by
Hartmann
I booked a free weekend night at the Sheraton in Quito. A friend of mine has a free weekend night that they will not be able to use and they wanted to book a reservation in my name for the same hotel.
When calling SPG they were told that they would have to physically be at the hotel to do this. Is this correct? I've made reservations for other people and not had to be there, what's the difference with the promotion?
This has come up before and this is a condition of this specific promotion. when you redeem points with SPG, you don't usually have to be present. They usually just make a note in your reservation that this is the case. For whatever reason, SPG apparently decided that your physical presence was required for this promo. Maybe our Starwood Lurkers can explain why this was done in this case.