I was talking to a manager at the front desk of a Sheraton recently, who asked me how I thought the merger was going. I said I didn't like it, and he said the same -- that the Marriott system is far inferior to the SPG system. It sounded like he had been told that it would be easier to convert ~1,200 Starwood hotels to the Marriott system than to convert ~4,000 Marriott hotels to the Starwood system. Penny wise pound foolish.