Originally Posted by DJ_Iceman

Plus, there was an open disdain for being tied to Marriott and several disparaging remarks from different hotel employees about the riff-raff these "Marriott" guests were compared to their decades-long legacy travelers. The sense I got was that joining the Autograph Collection was an ownership decision that front-line staff and management did not agree with, and they would rather have seen the hotel fade into obscurity and bankruptcy than to have brought in new customers.