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Old Mar 9, 2006 | 6:04 pm
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Originally Posted by Boraxo

I love how "rising hotel rates and occupancy levels" are always provided as justification. Funny, but I don't remember hotels or airlines cutting award costs when times were tough. For some reason things only go one direction - not to the benefit of the consumer.
Actually, I can think of two LA hotels (both starwood, not Marriott) which went down a category when room revenue was low.
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