Originally Posted by
jtwiz
I agree with this completely. Sure, if traveling for business and I land a nice upgrade, I am happy. But I never ask for one. I did recently get a horrible room in LA and was told it was due to the bed type guarantee. It was the only King bed left. I said I don't care what type of bed I have and they moved me to a giant 2 Queen bed room overlooking the pool, with a balcony.
But when I am traveling somewhere out of the ordinary with Mr jtwiz, then I may call/email in advance asking for an upgrade. For example, when we went to The Glasshouse in Edinburgh (on a paid stay), I asked for an upgrade as we were there on my birthday and got an amazing suite.
We encounter the same. When travelling with our son, I always book a two bed room. There have been times when I was told an upgrade was available but with a king and a pullout. If its a suite with a separate bedroom, we take it. If its just a larger room with a sofa bed, we decline it. My son doesn't love sleeping on a pullout (can't blame him) and it ends up eating up the larger area anyway.
It seems most of our upgrades are in the form of a better view, which I do appreciate.
A couple of times, we were offered upgrades in the form of "an upgrade is available but your current room is truly better because of X, Y, and Z"
Maybe its when and where we travel but we only got a truly "Wow" upgrade a handful of times - Renaissance Baltimore comes to mind when we were upgraded to a massive suite that was bigger than some friends' apartments.