The Palm Pilot aficionados have the technological edge to be sure. Not being as electronically enabled, a paper copy of an online reservation would have accompanied me if I could have had one.

I made the reservation early in 1999. Once the reservation system was making 2000 reservations I thought it wasn't worth changing from a $142/night rate to $165/night or more. It would be a good trick to change a telephone reservation into an online one. I have changed an online reservation by phone to a better rate if I saw it online. I have no experience going from a phone reservation to an online reservation, except where the rates came down and the former could be cancelled.

It is reassuring to know other stubborn travelers would have fought and, no doubt, won the battle. The thing is, at check in the date was correctly the Sunday date. The mess occured when we changed our checkout date to Saturday and they made it Friday for their convenience.

The assistant manager agreed with me when I said the message was that we should not tell them our checkout date until our bags are packed. At least with Marriott there is no penalty for doing so.



[This message has been edited by 2bgrounded (edited 08-15-2000).]