Originally Posted by
joshua362
How often / frequent can the PLT Override exemption be invoked? Just for one night like this?
What prevents local properties from being overrun by PLT's demanding overrrides and having to walk the world away. With Marriott corporate minting PLT's so easily lately, is this a new potential problem?
1) hotels can only apply for 1 PLT Override per stay date (ie the max they can be granted in a given year is 365 unless it's leap year then it increases by 1)
2) a good hotel will manage their inventory and know the high demand events an plan accordingly....this isn't a new problem, IMO this was a case of bad execution by the hotel....the 48 hour guarantee isn't really difficult to honor for hotels, you just have to apply some common sense to it (ie mid-week has more plt demand than say a Sunday...so ok you take the proper steps to ensure the inventory is there and PLT Overrides don't cause an issue...in a sense hotels are holding some rooms for plats until 2 days before)