That mirrors my years as a FD clerk at a CY. Our restaurant people fought over who had to work the weekend.

Are we talking about Platinum members here? If we are these must have been MR members with elite status that spent a lot of time/money becoming Platinum and then taking advantage of offers/weekend promotions. There are no incredible deals where I live on weekends--certainly nothing remotely close to $39 nights on weekends.

I was referring to weekend guests in general. During the off season our weekend rates were pretty inexpensive and for some reason our frugal guests seemed to have large appetites. They paid for breakfast and always got their money's worth.

And if Hyatt were to grow to actually be close to Marriott's hotel #s and coverage, I suspect we would see them water down their program as well.

Which as you probably are aware of are a totally different breed of guests than the average MR Plat. Given that most Courtyards (some rare exceptions exist) are not Elite-friendly at all (independent of day of week) I would expect that even less of the guests you were seeing on weekends were the ones that mourn the lack of free breakfast at weekends.

Greetings - Dirk

Currently Hilton is the closest in terms of distribution, and even they are about 1500 hotels short of MI at this time (I believe Hilton has about 3000 to MI's 4500, last I new Starwood was less than 1000 and Hyatt was even smaller)

I thought Hilton offered a breakfast guarantee for diamond/gold members that is good 7 days/week at their FS properties with resorts included. Hilton does not offer EEOs, but it seems like size alone should not dictate whether properties offer free breakfast to mid-level and higher elite customers.

while there certainly are difference between MI's distribution and Hilton Worldwide's at both of there size I personally dont think they are that big of a deal to most guests (I'm certain there are those who see big differences though - it just depends on what part of the world are important to each of us individually)

Folks, for those who have posted their experiences in this thread re: properties, as bitburger pointed out I'm maintaining a list of exec lounges open on the weekend & whether brekkie is offered or not, so it would help me (and your fellow FTers!) a lot if you would post your experiences in the stickey:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/marri...-weekends.html

Cheers.