Just curious (and maybe a bit nitpicky) but is anyone else having trouble with the date enter now on the front page? A calendar used to pop up which was so handy. Now the calendar isn't popping up. Instead you have to enter the date manually. That isn't awful, but there's no calendar at all linked so if you need to look up your dates you have to go elsewhere. If Marriott doesn't fix anything else, I hope they fix the calendar function on the date entry.
Side note: the calendar does seem to pop up inside the site (meaning after you've done a search) but isn't that too late?
I agree on the Marriott site. No hotel site is positively awesome. All have bad points. But I believe Marriott is the worst.