Originally Posted by MN_travler
Excuse me, but your comment is rather cryptic to me. Sorry if I am slow but always willing to learn...
Opposite? By that are you saying that Marriott has NOT Increased the number of points to stay at hotel? and they have opened up MORE rooms to Reward Travel? and they remove blackout days...
If they have done these things (and they have) what on earth was their motivation to reduce benifits to Reward members?
I'll admit I am blind but willing to listen and be convinced to see the error of my views...Help me out here will ya...
MN,
You had implied that MAR was holding back award rooms because of the cost of "giving them away", my post was to simple inform you this was not the case. Our standard proceedure is to account for the cost of the points at the time the points are awarded therefore the cost of an award room has already been accounted for before you actually stayed (for further details please see our SEC filings available on
www.marriott.com/investor)...infact we do not view MR as a drain on our statement at all...if we the program wouldn't exsist today, afterall MR is the largest hotel program today and it continues to grow
Everyone is entitled to their own point of view but please realize each traveler has needs which may or may not be similar to you own and because of this the other programs may or may not be a better fit for different travelers