Thank you for this good contribution ^ - regarding specifically poor old Raffles in SIN, I will never ever put my feet into this (gay) unfriendly hotel anymore anyway.

Now with the current economic crisis we should even be more difficult: My latest technique is to call any property at the time of my cancelation deadline regarding special events. And if they have such events I just switch to the competitor or to even a more simple property. It's so easy now - at least in Europe. Do not remember a full house these recent times.