Please check the sign tomorrow!

I think its a cheap way of saying "we acknowledge our obligation" but here is a few cents in constantly devaluing currency so you take "no" easier. Similar to 1,000 points for breakfast but you're welcome to spend $100+ on it in our big city restaurant.

Of course "elites" are going to want to stay at the chain that made them that way - the entire point of the stick and carrot game they invented.

All status should be calculated by actual BIB (butts in bed) nights. Anything less cheapens the value of the program which over-mints the elites and obviously dilutes the benefits for every one. I earned my LTT the hard way, staying at out of the way questionable properties at times to do so for 15 years. Stupid me.