Originally Posted by
Oxon Flyer
For hotels with a big Marriott sign outside, staffed with people in Marriott uniforms and booked through the Marriott website, then it’s reasonable to use Marriott in a thread title in this context on this forum. We don’t need to be diverted from the topic in question by technical nitpicks re ownership structures.
Completely disagree.
Eventually people need to learn that hotel chains are not making micro-level decisions at franchised hotels. Rogue hotel owners are rogue hotel owners. It doesn't really matter what logo is on the clothing or the building. But most importantly in this context, Marriott has nothing at all to do with setting room rates - they are simply getting their cut of whatever the individual hotels are charging.
If the OP has checked Trivago or whatever and Marriott are the ONLY hotel chain with higher room rates due to the demand spike, then that's worthy of being called out as something potentially intrinsic to Marriott. Otherwise it's simple supply and demand with regulations in place to avoid gouging.