Originally Posted by
sethb
I would suspect that an ordinary joe who books for 3 months is very likely to get better treatment than a Lifetime/Diamond who books for 2 nights.
I know for a fact that a non-status-holder who books a convention providing several hundred room-nights on an otherwise dead weekend gets treated a hell of a lot better than a Diamond member who books a room. (Said better treatment might well result in him ceasing to be a non-status-holder.)
You are mixing up different things here.
First of all, people who book conventions with several hundred rooms kill everyone, including LT Diamonds at that property; maybe not Courtesy Card holders (well, in the end, they sign the cheque for that convention
)
LT Diamond members are treated fairly well and normally do not necessarily need upgrade instruments in regular situations, I am not talking about extraordinary events here and treatment at properties varies massively.
Back in the days, LT Diamond had a higher VIP code than the highest regular Diamond member, so you get the idea.
And we have two more players in the game:
Courtesy Card holders, who clearly outperform LT Diamond members
Long term (repeated) guests.
90 days at Coconut Point incl. a suite for free deserves much more respect in my book in comparison to Grand Cypress (again, roughly 30 suites vs. 70 suites)
But again, if you stayed there for 90 days in a row over the last 10+ years, we are talking about revenue streams that will get you LT Diamond just based on your stays at this particular property.
In general, some of the posts by Ancien M. are a bit off. He is a newly comped Diamond member without lots of experience after all, so one should give him a break. @:-)
In the end, he did not receive anything special (basically standard suites after using suite upgrade instruments) and he is very happy about it.
In the end, I value his informative posts and 'disregard' the rookie mistakes.
At a certain point in time, we all started to accumulate knowledge about Hyatt and GPP.
