Originally Posted by
eefor jfp
And even that is counter-intuitive. Premium rooms should be available at a BETTER rate than standard rooms, since it would incentivize us (me) to pay the extra points. As it is, I usually get some sort of upgrade for free (though it's a crap shoot, I admit), but given the relative values, I will always risk the upgrade going forward rather than paying much more (in points per dollar or dollars per point) to secure it. What were/are they thinking?!?
I've always thought this - even back when Premium rooms were a new thing. I'd literally see things like standard room 50,000 points, deluxe room 145,000 points/nt, when we all know "deluxe" might be 10 square feet larger than "standard". (Or not at all larger, because the hotel was gaming the system all along and "standard" hardly existed at all.)
Instead, if it were more like Marriott - a 5k upgrade for something like C-level, a 10k upgrade for something like a standard suite - I'd have been more likely to book those rooms. I'm sure they'd capacity-control the suites, but in my Gold years I'd have thrown the extra points at a C-level room just to not have to grovel for the upgrade at the front desk.