It's just the first born children.... They do, however, let the dog remain on the heavenly poochbed.

Anyway, my only real comment / concern at this point is how is a hotel going to know to differentiate between a booking made by a web-based travel agency and a regular IATA agency booked through a typical GDS system. Many of my bookings come through the latter, and I really could do without "issues" upon checkin each time, "armed with the rulepage". I can't imagine Starwood really wants to jeopardize that distribution channel, and doesn't appear to, by the lurkercomments, but the overall language of the edict leaves me a bit uneasy.