Originally Posted by Biggie Fries

Google "rack rate" -- trust me: this is not what anybody should be paying at a Ritz-Carlton (or anywhere else), unless you are (a) not paying with your own money and/or (b) don't need to be reading this thread.

If by "rack rate" what is being implied by BeatCal is whatever the Ritz-Carlton website is showing... okay, that's about right. I'm sitting in a very elegant RC right now, and just came down from our umpteenth visit to the very well provisioned club. We found a rate on-line some months ago, called, and booked the club upgrade. Checked room prices for our dates intermittently, and when they happened to drop, called in and got the price re-booked on the same nights. No hassle.

Whole thing seems more-or-less equivalent to applying a Diamond Suite Upgrade with Hyatt, except with RC I suppose you are not supposed to book online first.