I don't see the point in not making them universally available to all. Perhaps go down the Accor route and make them available to top or possibly top two tiers a day earlier.
The problem with your suggestion is almost everyone who is a member will be an elite after a couple of nights. To be gold elite you now only need to 10k points so in theory there is nothing elite about elite.
There are only about 150 hotels on the list in each round, if you were to give every elite up to 80,000 points worth of PBs you would need to increase the participating properties to something like 800 in order to cope with the demand or make them available at all properties and I can imagine what the GMs of the more top end properties would have to say.
Also for someone who doesn't stay very often and doesn't accrue a lot of points PBs are very attractive
Last edited by chrism20; Jul 11, 2015 at 4:38 am