Originally Posted by
sdsearch
Well, promotions are designed to induce new behavior. You were going to do those Marriott stays whether there was a promo or not, so I'm not sure how valid it is to complain. Starwood, which is going to be merging with Marriott (and so Starwood points will become Marriott points) has a different promo, which requires 2 nights minimum per stay, maybe you should have book Starwood properties instead?
It's exactly because people tend to do longer stays in the summer that so many hotel programs do stay-based promos in the summer. Their goal is to get the most spend from you possible, not to give you the most points possible. Look at it from their perspective, if you were going to do the exact same stays whether there was a promo or not, why should the promo be the kind that you prefer?
It's the people who weren't going to stay at Marriott properties at all this summer, had a promo not been announced, that it's most aimed at.
Can't, for the life of me, figure out how Marriott figures it would be better off if we did short stays instead of long stays.
This year, as has been true for a number of years now, we will get enough nights that both of us would make Platinum if we split them. And, we stay at a lot of full service hotels. We spend a goodly chunk of change at Marriott every year. Why in the world would they want us to change our behavior? Seems to me that they would want to encourage us to continue our current behavior.
Besides, isn't it a time honored FT tradition; grumping about things that don't break your way?
