[QUOTE=danger/ I'm at the point where I'm deciding on taking a Marriott Platinum challenge, at which point it's goodbye Hyatt.[/QUOTE]
I checked into a Marriott AC Hotel in Rio this week as a Platinum and for my welcome amenity I was gifted a half bottle of wine, cheese plate, free beverage in the lounge, free breakfast, a coffee table book about the city, 1000 extra Marriott points on top of the points garnered from the room price, and a bowl of fresh plantain chips waiting for me in the room.
After so many checkins at Hyatt as a Globalist where the only thing offered has been breakfast, this felt like Christmas.