Originally Posted by Johnny Rocket

I had a very interesting conversation recently with the Director of Rooms of a Starwood hotel who happened to be driving a shuttle bus.

He also said something very interesting about how hotels are reimbursed when points are used. As you know from the Le Méridien NYC court case a few years back, it was revealed how Starwood would reimburse the full Average Daily Rate of a room rate once the occupancy level of the hotel hit 95%.... but Marriott don't.

He said they only reimburse the first 50% of point redeemed rooms... not ALL like Starwood.