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Old Jan 28, 2008 | 12:14 am
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Originally Posted by soitgoes
You'll almost certainly get denied with the "business room" claim. . . . Another problem is that the rate (if it's the GTA one) includes breakfast. You could try a BRG claim for the Welcome Weekend Rate-STD for 129€ because that one includes breakfast, but Park Inn, in the wonderfully unfriendly Carlson group of companies, has denied such claims for me in the past.
You have a flawless crystal ball.

Park Inns denied my best rate claim because its rate for the same room, which was more than $60 higher than its competitors, did not include breakfast and its competitors' did. Think about that for a second. "No, sir, we won't abide by our pledge to beat a competitors' lower rate because the competitors' lower rate offers even more amenities than ours." I even told the folks at Park Inns that I wouldn't even take breakfast and didn't need them to throw in that benefit.

Oh, well. I'll take my money to a hotel chain that hopefully won't treat a customer like dirt by making an absolute mockery of its guarantee. The Grand Hyatt it is.
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