Originally Posted by
arlflyer
I sort of get where they're coming from, and it's always been the case (with Hilton) that "them's the rules", but it has always struck me as something that is disproportionately likely to tick off valuable customers - the folks in this situation are often road warriors attending corporate functions, and it would seem to me that the cost to deliver benefits would be less than the potential impact of the perceived slight of treating them like nobodys. But who knows.
But the valuable customer here is the entity that pays not the person that stays. Therefore, the paying party rightfully gets the benefits in the form of big savings due to a reduced rate and the person who stays gets nothing.