It takes a while for bacteria to grow and multiply to do so. An hour or two run is not enough. Anyways, if someone smells after an hour run there are probably some health issues.

You can't be serious....Your skin is covered in bacteria:


http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-a...-with-bacteria


Maybe you should do a little more research before you post any more idiotic claims. Your skin is crawling with hundreds of kinds of bacteria, NIH researchers find.

There are up to 100 times more kinds of bacteria thriving in "vibrant communities" in healthy skin than previously known, report NIH researcher Elizabeth A. Grice, PhD, and colleagues at the National Human Genome Research Institute.

Those bugs aren't diseases -- they are part of us, says study leader Julia A. Segre, PhD.





So unless you have some Miracle skin a mix of bacteria is all over your skin.

You are missing key component of time here. Only over time will bacteria and nutrients from sweat produce the smell. But hey, maybe you should ask your WebMD on how it works.

...because people who take a quick run don't stink. Ever... :rolleyes:

Oh, for the love of god. As exercise-phobic as I am, I would cheerfully spend an hour on the treadmill in a crappy Marriott gym just so I could come into the CL and sit right next to you...

Is my $200 t-shirt less acceptable than your $40 button down?

Yes. But my $20 t-shirt would be more acceptable than your $400 button down!

Because that's how the CL works. Each of us has a vision of what the CL should be, and object to it being anything else.

Exactly why Marriott should define it more clearly. They snuck the +1 rule in without even publicizing and many here didn't even know it was a rule. So you have people breaking the rules that don't even realize it.

It shouldn't be up to the guests to have to say something to an attendant or tell the front desk or another desk (drip sweat near me or around me and see how I react). How Hard would it be to have a set of rules and expectations? That way you don't have to worry either about some low level employee getting into a pissing match with guest either. You simply point to the rules. Obviously some rules exist they are just selectively enforced.

I don't think proper dress, limiting the # of people, etc will do anything but improve the chaotic mess they have now. With all the new United folks in the lounge now it is only going to get worse. I can't tell you the # of times I have skipped the CL to avoid the circus like atmosphere. The lounge is one of the few if any perks left and right now it is being run like FI Buffett. One just needs to compare a lounge outside the USA where they strictly enforce rules to see the difference. Some of the lounges forbid children all together. I get this isn't the Four Seasons, but when paying up to 500 bucks a night for a room a certain level of respect, class and functionality is expected and appreciated. If I wanted the SHS experience for breakfast I would stay there.

Are you paying 500 bucks a night or is your company?

What difference does that make?

Considering I own my company me. That is what a room costs in many major cities without notice when places are full. Miami, NYC, Amsterdam, London to name a few. London can be higher. Even with lots of notice the rates can get that high on certain weekends. That is staying at Marriott branded hotels not Ritz's and 4Seasons.

In the last month we have stayed in 3 different full service Marriott hotels. Husband is plat, 2 kids and I have no status. We book 2 rooms, one king, one double. In all cases they gave us 4 keys, 2 for each room and all 4 keys opened the door to the concierge lounge. It would seem, based on that, that they intended all 4 of us to have lounge access. They also provided arrival gifts for each room and free internet for both rooms.

Fair enough, but you're paying 500 bucks a night for the room, not for access to the CL. Non-elite guests might be spending the same amount and don't have access to the CL. But as others said, maybe you should be staying at nicer hotels then if you're bothered by people not wearing a suit and tie to breakfast.

Because it's a public venue, not one's private home.

You can't really think that wearing PJs or a bathrobe to restaurants, stores, subways, concerts, walking down the street, through hotel lobbies or in an exec lounge, etc, is appropriate attire. One doesn't need to wear a tuxedo, but there is an expectation of some semblance of attire one would wear when in a public environment & PJs isn't on the list.

Cheers.

Maybe I was raised differently but PJ's never leave my home or hotel room. I won't even wear them in my home if non-family is present.

I was whining at swim team the other night that I really wanted to go home after the workout which ends at 7:30 pm, take a hot shower and put on my pjs, but I cannot because my daughter's volleyball practice doesn't end until 9:30 pm. Another woman said I should just pick her up in my pj's since I don't even get out of my car and it is only a couple of miles. Nope. Not gonna happen.