Originally Posted by
ftrichard
Putting the US experience on one side, which is normal I believe, which hotels in Asia have so consistently denied you upgrades and provided little other value? Your experience, in my experience, is highly unusual and perhaps you should be requesting your personal data file off of Bonvoy to see what is written about you by the hotels you stay in. I've spent the last ten years in Bonvoy hotels in Asia qualifying as LTP and am at near 100% meaningful upgrade success with actual suites featuring very heavily. The only time in living memory I've not had a meaningful upgrade was in February this year at the Four Points Perth...
If the last ten years are fair game to bring up, my first Plat year (under SPG)
completely lacked meaningful upgrades. In Bangkok [SGS and PA]; in KL [at LM KL/PJ]; on Bali [Laguna, Westin Nusa Dua, both 4pbs, Sheraton Kuta]; Jakarta, basically everywhere except Le Meridien [where if you don't get a suite upgrade, you've basically failed life]; and, in Poland -- I bring it up because it's one of the European countries where elite recognition reaches Asia-levels -- I never got more than a one-category bump. Was a bit anticlimactic coming off an SPG Gold run in which I'd had truly memorable stays by paying a little extra for lounge access. Anyway, I digress, as this was thousands of years ago
Back to the present day, my last year as a (Marriott) Platinum in Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia was 8/10 for awesome suite upgrades (including the Turquoise Suite at JW Phu Quoc).