Originally Posted by
VickiSoCal
I believe the first screen always displays the lowest night during your stay and the second screen displays the first night, which may, or may not be the lowest.
In addition the room/rate type with the lowest first night, is not always the cheapest overall.
Thanks for your detailed posts. I now see how it works.
It does seem a bit odd to me and it was not intuitive to dig deeper to see that the rate changes during the stay. It's dangerous to assume, but I assume that most people do what I did: ick-through on the rate and,seeing a much higher rate on the next screen, think, "I'm done, time to check another hotel," and Marriott doesn't get the booking.