Again posters, re-read the announcement.

Not all of the Ritz's will participate so don't get ahead of yourselves expecting that a given hotel will participate until we receive the word from higher on up.

I will be very much surprised that MR has thought through a number of my questions, much less other salient questions others will ask, such as use of M/R gift cards and gift checks at those participating properties to name but a few additional queries.

As I noted in the past only some R/C's participated -- as I recall the property in Montreal participated as did one in Jamaica? Anybody remember those that did participate awhile ago?

In any event, the program participation of the Ritz's was quite disjointed and did not work really well and it was soon dropped. I hope that Marriott has its hands around which properties will participate and the general outlines of the program for those properties and that is why I am trying to nail down the important facts -- not jumping to conclusions that all Ritz's will participate -- they will not, and if history is any guide, some of the most exclusive resorts will remain pointless.