Originally Posted by
hhoope01
I do believe that socrates a few years back stated that the rate for a Plat Guaranteed Room depended on whether it was a FS or non-FS hotel. FS hotels would use their "general" corp rate (which could be higher than a particular company's corp rate). I'll have to see if I can find that post.
IIRC the one that surprised me the most was Okinawa. I booked it for the husband in high season at ~275 night, which was the same rate as all the surrounding hotels. Then all the folks he was traveling with reported they couldn't book and we couldn't figure out what was going on for awhile.