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Old Apr 24, 2014 | 3:01 pm
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Originally Posted by VickiSoCal
We've always found the plat over ride rates to be really reasonable.
My understanding is that for a FS Marriott hotel, the overide rate is the hotel's general Corporate discounted rate. And the times I've actually recognized I was using the Plat overide, the rate was very reasonable.

Now Starwood, OTOH, offers a hotel's Rack rate for their Plat overide and that is usually much higher than their general corporate rate.
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