Originally Posted by
C17PSGR
I realize there are a couple of reports here where folks have been told that a hotel is dialing back to meet MR standards. I accept they've been told that but its not something I'm seeing. Hotels add and cut back all the time based on local business conditions. But, for example, changing a chefs table at lunch to finger sandwiches at lunch doesn't reflect a cut back to meet Marriott standards. Marriott standards don't require lunch at all.
When hotels open or are trying to drive business, they seek to exceed standards. When they are busy, the dial back to standards.
+1000
There always seem to be reports of a few hotels doing this or that that cause alarm for some who then raise the flag about all hotels or Marriott conspiring against us. It turns out usually to be a glitch or simple IT error or the biased/uninformed/speculative view of a rogue employee or two without substantiation. It also is too frequent that these reports never seem to identify the hotels involved...even after being pressed. That results in all of us carefully considering the sources of such “alleged info”, usually to the dismay of those doing the reporting here on FT.
Prejudice arises from drawing huge conclusions based on a small sample size. Prejudice arises from fearmongering to try and convince people that a group is out to get us even as that’s not substantiated and almost always not true. These problems are rampant here, too.