Originally Posted by
RobotDoctor
The food/beverage credit at Courtyard properties is horrible. I'm a lifetime Platinum and all the property offers is $10 credit. Let alone the hotel is mostly empty and I got a standard King room next to the elevator. This experience is making it easy not to love the new changes.
We just had a 4 night stay at a Courtyard and I think it's much better than it used to be. The Courtyard used to be the one Marriott brand (other than resorts) that a platinum never had any free breakfast options. The 400 pts + 1 market item or coffee didn't really excite me but this time, I had a choice of 500 pts or $20/day for 4 days because there were 2 of us in the room. That added up to $80 vs 500 points. That's a lot more than I used to get and enabled us to have breakfast or an evening bistro snack a few times.
We also got a room next to the elevator which I was not too happy about until I realized that we had been upgraded to a suite and that we were not hearing the elevator at all.