Originally Posted by
hhoope01
The times I have "negociated" rates with a hotel the rate has always still received points. So I'm not sure what it it would take to get a rate that didn't include points.
And as always, you will still get your elite benefits no matter the rate, negociated or not. Oh, wait, Marriott is taking those away as well. So maybe you are right and you won't get anything any longer.
Well, a friend of mine a while back got an $18/night "employee" rate from a manager of a Marriott family hotel (this hotel was scheduled to leave the Marriott family within days, though, and I don't know if that had anything to do with that offer or not). Now, this friend was not a Marriott Rewards member, but if they had been, would they have gotten night credit at
that rate?
But how low have you gotten rates negotiated? To 1/2 of the BAR? 1/3 of it*? (I've gotten LNFed down that low. I'd love to be able to negotiate a points-earning rate that low without LNFing, but I have my doubts.)
(*By 1/3 I mean LNF rates of between $50 and $60 when the original rate I reserved to qualify for the LNF was in the $160 range. By 1/2 I mean when I can only get between $80 and $90 through LNF in the same circumstance.)