Originally Posted by
DealDetective
Ironically, I had no problem booking an award stay at Aviara, but was surprised that I could not book a standard award night at Manchester Grand. They are offering free night awards for suites, but not a standard room. When I looked at the paid room availability, they had no base level rooms at a publicly-available rate, but my corporate code yielded a standard 2 queen room! Clearly they have the base level rooms, but are only offering them for non-public rates.
I hear ya Booked the Marriott Autograph collection for the 4th couldn't get into Manchester but they have been so good to me over
the decades I'll probably look the other way If it isn't the norm going forward