Originally Posted by
Jaunts
It seems very unprofessional for a Director of Rooms at a hotel to unload all of this information to a hotel guest in the shuttle.
I don't know much about the financials in the hotel industry, but find it interesting that $14,000 would make a hotel leave a chain - if that is true.
That would be $6200 more per month, or about $2 per room per day (whether occupied or not) if the property has a hundred rooms. If the hotel can get the same services for their previous fee, some properties would feel that this is a big hit to take for no real reason, especially after all of the transition hassles they recently faced due to Marriott.
Thought experiment: Can the hotel raise its rates by $2 per night on average (actually significantly more since this would be an average including vacant rooms and rooms out of service) and still not experience reduced sales in their market, now that they're in Marriott?