Originally Posted by
sophiegirl
US, you are correct, the illustration does not qualify for LNF because of the 24 hour timeframe, and you are also correct that he could just call customer service and change the rate. However, it IS possible to LNF 2 rates off of Marriott.com, I have done it many times.
This is correct. And when it works, it works particularly well, because you have (2) confirmed reservations on their own site....they can easily verify it, none of that "rate has disappeared" stuff.
It used to be really easy, harder now, but still doable. Nothing to do with the time change...merely find a rate code that does not have any criteria associated to it.
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How, what, where, why would Marriott do/allow such a thing as to compete with themselves?