Originally Posted by
C17PSGR
And even under the old SPG terms, the description from corporate policy was that speciality suites that were excluded were Presidential suites and equivalent. Unfortunately, in my personal experience and what appears to be reported by others, a number of legacy SPG properties have decided that they will define "standard suites" to a very limited set of specific suites and refuse to upgrade to any other rooms.
That can be true. That always has been true even with SPG. Some properties always were more generous than others, and that’s just as true today as it was before. It’s also just as true for legacy Marriott properties as it is for legacy SPG properties. It’s just that more SPG brands more often have more suites proportionally,
This being for the select/standard suite pool for Platinum suite upgrades.
So when we in the Ambassador thread point out that we more often than not are upgraded to suites almost always and even higher level and specialty suites not normally available to Platinums, you understand part of the benefit that it is to have achieved Ambassador status.