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Originally Posted by socrates
Originally Posted by
fireworksboy
Call me crazy but a room that is not occupied would seem to me to be "available". (or if you prefer, any room that a key has not been given out for)
All hotel chains not just MI consider unblocked rooms to be available - any room already blocked would not be considered available....there is a big difference between blocked and occupied/rented/sold
It would be helpful if Marriott stated such on their website - I'm wondering why they wouldn't - especially is so many folks here feel it's a perfectly legit scheme?
Someone up thread made an upgrade analogy. Something like what Continental (now United Airlines) does with its elites sounds similar. 1Ks essentially are upgraded 6 days out, Plats 5 days out, Golds 3 days out and Silvers 1 day out. Pretty simple, no? It's pretty easily explained on one web page on their website.
My personal guess why Marriott doesn't make this clear is that folks Gold and under would realize how empty the benefit really is when considering how many people have higher status than them. So it really wouldn't be any incentive to make those extra stays for such a benefit.
But the way it is worded now, it would appear to give a Gold member a chance if they check in early.
Just getting tired of Marriott making up rules on the fly and having other secret stipulations attached to the various elite stages.
Considering EEOs are dead, what's incentive is left when upgrades are watered down for Golds?