Originally Posted by
bhrubin
Design Hotels are excluded. Marriott’s terms may be sloppy there, but Design Hotels are still excluded and always have been, even under SPG.
For what it's worth, I have just been upgraded to a junior suite at a Design hotel (I booked one category above entry level room, and received 3 category upgrade). I wish we had more data points in this thread to better assess how Design hotels handle upgrades, but anyway I am now 1/2 this year on suite upgrades at Design.