Originally Posted by
CJKatl
The programs combining has nothing to do with this, Marriott has always released dates by the week, not by the day, and popular redemption periods are often held back for a few weeks. From the other thread:
The reservation system will see what you see online. Sometimes calling the hotel can help if you have status. Hotels sometimes keep lists and give preference to those with status. I had that happen a couple years ago, called the hotel, got on the list and ultimately got the reservation.
Of course this is presuming that they will continue to keep handling the inventory exactly how they have been handling it and that the people that load the inventory are not assigned special tasks to facilitate the changeover this is about to happen. But we don't know that for a fact and having been involved in many system changes, they were all hands on deck to do whatever was needed when told to do something. Let's just take a breather for now and let them get their work done and see what we've got when they are done.