Originally Posted by
DJ_Iceman
Let's see... I can stay at an amazing property with fantastic rooms, great restaurants, outstanding customer service, world-class pools, a stupendous spa, and on an amazing part of a wonderful tropical island. Or I can choose someplace else where I get a free breakfast.
Sometimes I forget what a warped-reality kind of cyberspace FT is.
That about sums it up with Marriott especially in the Islands. If I was starting over today and really bored down into the FF programs I would ask myself "why"? Now that I am retired with several million points/miles left in the "bank" I ask myself that now. Think about if all these programs were wound down and the money really applied to the operations how much would it affect our pricing? A lot. The "currency" of FF programs has dropped by 50% over the years ( My estimate ) and continues. As does service and quality of the product.