Originally Posted by
MePlatPremier
What this means — and it has always been like that, even during SPG times, only poorly enforced — is that multiple reservations at different properties located in the same area cannot all obtain a LNF reward. One may always submit LNF claims for all reservations and have then approved (i.e. price matched), but only one of those claims (the first submitted) will receive the LNF reward (5k points or additional 25% off the matched rate).
Mashed Snow
The wording is "Multiple claims for a stay consisting of two or more nights in the same week at the same Marriott hotel or Marriott hotels in the same geographic location (e.g. city) may be treated as one claim for one stay, even if booked through more than one reservation."
This is means that we can define a stay consisting of a set of m reservations S ={R1, R2,, Rm} in order to compare the rates associated with the reservations spanning the stay S you need to compare each reservation individually since there is no other way of doing this. A a successful claim for stay S spanned by the reservations R1 to Rm, do not mean that only one of the reservations spanning stay S gets the discount if the claim for stay S is successful ALL reservations spanning the stay should subject to the 25% discount, equivalent with if the reservations R1 to Rm being under one reservation number..Where it makes a difference is with points award since if a stay S would have been under one reservation number it would be awarded with 5K once not 5K for each individual reservation.