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Old Dec 8, 2007 | 1:56 pm
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Originally Posted by ohmark
But Rens tend to have more suites. I'm guessing the poster was speaking to the corporate Hilton and Marriott, not the particular brands. My personal experience this year: the only generous upgrades I've received at a fs property were at the Shelbourne and the Mayflower. At the limited service brands, I'm 2 for 2 at Fairfield, and zero for ? at Courtyard. At the fs properties, my keycard has always been coded for the c-lounge, without request.
well still from that standpoint many of the Hilton hotels are older and were built with more suites while Marriott's were not, speaking specifically about RHR - the hotels in the chain today tend to be older/historic and again have more suites but I would expect this to change as the brand continues to grow....unfortunately in general from a developers stand point suites are considerably more to build than a standard room which makes it difficult for the ROI to pencil-please note I did say in general, there are cases where it does pencil to add additional suites

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