Originally Posted by
Miles Ahead
I agree. But there's also a discussion on FT about another upscale hotel, this time in Paris, that is declining a points reservation because they want someone else's cash instead. We're seeing high-end properties refusing, or at least resisting, to take points. Maybe this is a consequence of the merger, maybe not. Marriott seems to be OK with this: and why not? They can advertise that their program can get you into an aspirational property, without actually having to provide it.
I'm not sure I'd describe the thread that way. And that hotel is paying for the FTer to stay at the PdG.