Originally Posted by BmanCCP

Almost every Marriott I visit routinely has a destination fee in the form of a daily credit. They seem very unfair when they cannot be used due to their hours of operation of restaurants. in my example, I hate hotel food and I'll use the credit for drinks, but oh we do not serve drinks at breakfast and the bar isn't open for lunch so its wasted.

The mayhem it creates the restaurant/bar and check out desk has me wondering why they still do it. They must spend hours a week explaining the rules over and over and going over line by line the printed folios at the desk with irate customers who do not understand how the credit was applied. Each hotel does it differently as well. The credit at the current hotel I am currently at displays the credit charged 35$ but not deducted....You have to look at the folio and find the restaurant charge for each day and make sure that the credit was deducted. So if you spent 45$ at the Marriott Hotel Bar and the credit is for 35$ the charge on the folio will be for $10 for that specific bill. It's he hard to account for if you have multiple days and multiple tickets.

Also, if you only get a beer and its 8$ but your credit is for 30$ you can TIP your server 22$ and they get keep all of it! so don't waste your credit. Order something and pay it forwards and lets all use 100% of the credits.