Originally Posted by
iflyjetz
I suspect the vast majority of 'problems' is former SPG loyalists complaining about Marriott and former Marriot loyalists complaining about how the addition of SPG has screwed up the program. In fact, if you read the posts, you'll find a very common theme where they state that the problem is due to the 'other' program being merged into their legacy program.
Well, what you say...it's actually nothing of the sort. It's a piss poor "leadership" team that has merged extreme incompetence with a distinct lack of ethics, and make the UA/CO merger look almost rosy by comparison.
Legacy Marriott vs. legacy SPG pro and con arguments is just a sideshow. Both sides are fairly united against Arne & his band of jokers.
IMO it's so bad that folks like me (900 Starwood nights in 9 years) moved to Hyatt with neither a match nor even a challenge; I'm just blackballing giving that company any $$$.