Do different corporations have different levels of "corporate"? Seems like my company's corporate level has most of the priv's of gold, save the 3 / 1$

Information about the Starwood VIP program is not officially published information. Therefore discussing it on a public forum is not appropiate. If you would like to find out information about the program you should contact Starwood directly so they can decide what they would or would not like to disclose about the program. They can be reached at (914) 640-8100 during normal business hours eastern time. I will not publish the platinum desk number, but if you happen to have it the reps there may be able to legitimately answer your questions.

Nice first post. Welcome to FLyertalk. Will you be holding any other lectures in your series ?

Ken in Phx

Funniest thing I've read yet this morning!! Well done, Ken! (Note also that despite the poster's 'unwillingness' to publish the elite number - It can be found on Starwood's website )

Even tho I suspect this poster is simply a "troll" and will not come back to read your comment.....I thought it was great!!
Best wishes, Dave

hee hee

Starwood's decision not to publish information has no bearing on what I may or may not discuss.

For example, Starwood does not publish what a horrible property the Westin Rio is, but I talk about that fact all the time.

This is easily the funniest post I've read here in a long, long time. Nice first post!! ^





You did intend this to be funny, right?

Oh, how I love it! A company doesn't publish information, therefore we should not discuss it? Yeah right. I have news for you, there is a lot of information that ALL companies (not only Starwood) do not publish. Things like their sanitary scores on the health inspector reviews, the true amount of executive compensation, the last time a hotel was renovated, whether their customer service is outsourced to India (or elsewhere)....the list goes on and on. Bringing things like this into public view and allowing people to make their own decisions about whether something is important to them and whether it will impact their purchase decisions is perhaps one of the greatest things about the Internet. Discussion of these "hidden" items should be encouraged, not squelched.

With regard to Starwood's 7 levels, it only re-enforces how useless Gold status really is.

BTW, my Starwood card says "VIP Executive Emperor Super-Double-Secret Bad-... Upgrade This Guy To The Presidential Suite Even When He's On Priceline Rates".

But it's not published, so I really wish you guys would all stop talking about it.

Crap. I'm only single-badass. Does anyone know how I can get upgraded to double for free?

It's easy...they will status-match Marriott Ubertitanium Meet This Guy At The Airport With A Limo Status.

But Marriott doesn't publish that level either, so we really shouldn't be talking about it in a public forum.

Apparently, SixG or whatever the heck that company's name is...

PULLED the image of VIP card from the original link I posted.......now on the page I originally posted, it only shows regular, gold, and platinum.

Hmmmm, I wonder if William had anything to do with this

I am sure William has better things to do then stop HTML code theives from trying to obtain the 'undiscusses' "ULTRA VIP super HOTEL GUY pass card for more FREE SOAPS"...

Thank you.

I've said it before. I'll say it again. I am not the only person at Starwood that reads these message boards.

Sincerely,


William R. Sanders
Customer Service Coordinator
Starwood Preferred Services

[email protected]

From what I can tell *wood has 3 different programs for companies:

• Starwood Preferred Business
• Global Preference
• SET Preferred

Anyone know the quick and dirty difference between them? I can only find a link for the first one.