Originally Posted by escape4

Suite upgrades, lounge access, and breakfast; those the are key elite benefits. GHA scores 0 / 3. Well as you mentioned some hotels now provide breakfast, but how many? Something like 5% of GHA hotels? And some of them were already including breakfast to all guests before, so in real life nothing has changed for a subset of that 5%. Nonetheless I will give GHA 0.05 / 3 rather than 0 / 3.

Regarding +2 upgrades, I have seen too many hotels where the value of the upgrade falls way short of the big hotel chains which often give suite upgrades, not +2. Another problem is if a hotel breaks down its room categories into 10+ buckets, then +2 is often immaterial. I give a greater weight to my real life experience than what's written in the terms & conditions, and bottom line, GHA upgrades are the weakest of Marriott, Hyatt, Hilton, IHG, and Accor. But also the easiest to reach a tier such as Titanium, so this should not be considered a "complaint".

I said this before: I would stay at GHA more if it was harder to achieve higher levels and if the benefits were better. I guess Red could be just that, minus the lounge access. But with an unclear target and lack of status challenge or status match, then I won't gamble.