Breakfast on weekends as Platinum
Jan 13, 2011 | 9:55 am
#16
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Jan 13, 2011 | 10:23 am
#17
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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.
Jan 13, 2011 | 10:26 am
#18
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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.
Jan 13, 2011 | 12:46 pm
#19
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Jan 13, 2011 | 1:51 pm
#20
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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
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Jan 14, 2011 | 5:05 am
#21
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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)
Jan 14, 2011 | 1:43 pm
#22
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Jan 14, 2011 | 1:52 pm
#23
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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.
Jan 14, 2011 | 5:27 pm
#24
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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.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/marri...-weekends.html
Cheers.