Originally Posted by
richarddd
My travel agent also reports that hotels are getting stingier with upgrades.
I wonder if it's because people are paying for higher category rooms (despite increasingly absurd pricing), so that upgrades are less available, or because hotels have just decided not to upgrade.
I wonder too. Coupled with inflation and the sheer number of luxury-level hotels that seem to be asexually reproducing (and with ever increasing frequency) in most major markets over the last several years.....
The whole thing strikes me as incongruous from a sheer logic perspective. But the wealth and demand must clearly be there, if not the competition between cards/programs/agencys. Mostly, i surmise these systems are complex to a degree well beyond most humans' understanding, certainly mine, and that there's no real way for even a phd in economics to fully understand how they all work together.