Fewer upgrades with FHR, Virtuoso, etc?
There are some posts in the Rome Hotel thread about hotels becoming stingier with upgrades, I thought the topic worthy of it's own thread. What's your recent experience with upgrades?
Originally Posted by
cornwall4000
Could very well be just me, but as a 30-year+ amex platinum card holder who used to book almost exclusively through FHR, I have found the upgrade benefit to be getting notably stingier over the years. Especially recently.
Wonder if that's true universally.
(and i mean 'universally' two ways - first, whether other amex FHR/THC users feel that trend too, but also whether other similar programs have tightened up on their own upgrades)
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.