Dec 29, 2018, 7:57 pm
Last edit by: applesauce
Updating for post-covid
STATE, City
STATE, City
Hotel name; Operator: Dates
Details (offered, asked, invoked?)
United States
CA, San Diego
Guild Hotel, Tribute Portfolio: ; 11/21
GA, Atlanta
United States
CA, San Diego
Guild Hotel, Tribute Portfolio: ; 11/21
GA, Atlanta
The Burgess, Tribute Portfolio; ; 07/23
No lounge. No breakfast. Claims exempt as a "boutique" hotel. Did not invoke.
TX, San Antonio
St Anthony Hotel; Operated by BC Lynd (?); 11/22
$15pp but does not include tax or tip. Only found out at checkout.
Mexico
Full Service Properties that Don't Comply with the Breakfast Benefit
May 30, 2019, 5:09 pm
#227
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And it's also your view that "breakfast in restaurant" means the same thing as "continental breakfast" and that Marriott's use of those two different terms does not signify a different standard when breakfast is selected as the welcome amenity?
May 31, 2019, 6:31 am
#229
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Neither of them are defined in the T&C. That's not "my view" it's an empirical fact.
Oct 3, 2019, 1:55 pm
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Oct 3, 2019, 3:50 pm
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Why can’t Marriott be as simple as Hilton - free breakfast means free breakfast at all brands.
I understand legacy contracts could get in the way but what’s the excuse for newer brands like Edition hotels, excluded in the programme but all with 5 years old and really only making a big push over the past 2/3 years.
My personal view on breakfast I’m more likely to pay a small up sell for made to order eggs etc if I have something decent included than be nickle and dimed. P*ss me off with a $10 voucher and I’m just walking down the road for a reasonable priced breakfast elsewhere.
I understand legacy contracts could get in the way but what’s the excuse for newer brands like Edition hotels, excluded in the programme but all with 5 years old and really only making a big push over the past 2/3 years.
My personal view on breakfast I’m more likely to pay a small up sell for made to order eggs etc if I have something decent included than be nickle and dimed. P*ss me off with a $10 voucher and I’m just walking down the road for a reasonable priced breakfast elsewhere.
Oct 3, 2019, 4:05 pm
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Hyatt is the brand that gets this benefit right, including specifying what the Globalist breakfast must include.
Oct 3, 2019, 4:08 pm
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Why can’t Marriott be as simple as Hilton - free breakfast means free breakfast at all brands.
I understand legacy contracts could get in the way but what’s the excuse for newer brands like Edition hotels, excluded in the programme but all with 5 years old and really only making a big push over the past 2/3 years.
My personal view on breakfast I’m more likely to pay a small up sell for made to order eggs etc if I have something decent included than be nickle and dimed. P*ss me off with a $10 voucher and I’m just walking down the road for a reasonable priced breakfast elsewhere.
I understand legacy contracts could get in the way but what’s the excuse for newer brands like Edition hotels, excluded in the programme but all with 5 years old and really only making a big push over the past 2/3 years.
My personal view on breakfast I’m more likely to pay a small up sell for made to order eggs etc if I have something decent included than be nickle and dimed. P*ss me off with a $10 voucher and I’m just walking down the road for a reasonable priced breakfast elsewhere.
Oct 3, 2019, 7:51 pm
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Oct 3, 2019, 8:15 pm
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Oct 4, 2019, 12:21 pm
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never had anything but a full buffet breakfast in Europe from Hilton. Also a couple in Asia.
Oct 4, 2019, 4:13 pm
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Oct 4, 2019, 11:02 pm
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It is my experience that most properties in North America are stingy with these type of benefits for Marriott and Hilton while their Asian and European counterparts go above and beyond in their offerings.
Oct 5, 2019, 3:00 am
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We are talking about Bonvoy and I wouldn’t as breakfast is not offered by design hotels, RC or Edition hotels with status. Some LC are/were pretty strict with keeping to continental too.
Oct 5, 2019, 9:40 am
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Compared to what? The numerous Hiltons that have an upcharge for full buffet? Or that give a dollar credit which is insufficient to cover anything resembling a full breakfast? That is a long list of Hilton properties btw.