Originally Posted by
SkiAdcock
Which gets back to the point that many int'l properties will allow you entry to the exec lounge if your room isn't ready/you check in way too early. But they're not required to do so. And they don't have to let the OP 'double dip'.
Cheers.
If you're not checked in, I would think that's a big exception to allow lounge access, as you'd have to code a key card. If you are allowed to check in early, then they've granted you access -- that doesn't start at a different time. But neither scenario allows you breakfast outside the lounge, that's always an exception.
Originally Posted by
chipmaster
You guys are amazing LOL.
I recently arrived at hotel very early, 6:30AM ( I am a Ambassador Elite ). I technically arrived way earlier and didn't expect a room, regardless they found me a room and told me my upgraded suite wouldn't be ready. Of course I showered, changed, and went and had breakfast that morning and the next ( double dip? ) . I guess if I was living on a "coupon" I'd likely have asked for one that morning as well as the next.
I'd be shocked if any employee denied me, but I'm sure the rules are the rules. What kind of hospitality business are we expecting for them. Now if this is "abused" that is why there are rules!
What's amazing is that some customers expect the hotel to follow every program rule to the letter, and then they also expect them to change the rules whenever it suits the customer -- "shocked" when they don't. As you wrote, the rules are the rules. Each hotel has latitude to provide more than the promised benefits, but when people begin to expect them to bend the rules, we end up with dozens of complaint threads here.
Again, the bottom line here is that the OP, if not offered breakfast, can ask politely for it and accept the answer.