I receive beautiful emails notifying me of upcoming stays from Hilton, Holiday Inn, and Choice hotels, but the Marriott ones are super ugly. No pictures, long strings of a typewriter font, weblinks that are whole paragraphs of text, and rather hard to actually pick out the most important details. And yes, I DO have my profile toggled on to receive html emails and it's been that way since the beginning.

Here's a sample:

Confirmation Number: XXXXXXXXXXXX
Check-in: Monday, March xx, 2012 (04:00 PM)
Check-out: Wednesday, March xx, 2012 (11:00 AM)
Your Rewards level: Gold


Reservation Reminder

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Number of rooms: 1
Guests per room: 1
Guest name: XXXXXXXXX
Reservation confirmed: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 (22:17:00 GMT)
Guarantee method: Credit card guarantee,

Summary of Room Charges

Total for stay (for all rooms) - 182.86


Complimentary on-site parking

Changes in taxes or fees implemented after booking will affect the total room price.

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Maybe what I should say is that I am looking for something that I can print out and take with me that fits on one page, something that I don't have to paste into Word and then perform major deletes and highlights on to put the relevant info on one page.

could it be your preference is to receive text email instead of Html?

I no longer print out the confirmation email when after one day I realized that I never really used it, anyway. Printed it, carried it with me, yet never used it. Seems like a waste of paper and ink.

Today, the email is on my smartphone, in HD, if I ever need it.

No, not set to text, but to HTML. What do other people get?

Here is the type of email I typically get:



Not sure if this is different than what you are describing or not. I don't think it's ugly or hard to find the important info in, but definitely doesn't print well either!

Like others, I pull it up on my phone if I need to reference it for any reason, but probably only once in a hundred stays has that happend.

plus 300 million % ^

I would really recommend blanking out your name and confirmation number

I too get the "ugly" emails. I checked my profile and saw that I had chosen HTML. I then clicked on text and then chose HTML again. I saved it as HTML. I then cancelled a reservation and the new email is "pretty".
So it seems that even though my profile said HTML, I was receiving text.

Thought about it, but didn't want to take the time since my MR number and email address aren't on the screenshot anywhere. Plus the reservation number is a past stay.

Just out of curiosity, what risk am I taking by putting this info out there?

The same risks as posting any information on a public forum...

1. Your email address *****@NAVI****.COM
2. Bad guys could use this for more recon, using social engineering against marriott call center, or yourself.
3. More bad stuff

Thanks for the heads up. ^

crjask: I tried your technique, clicking off html to text, then rechoosing html and saving-- but I still get the butt ugly emails. Oh well, there appears to be no solution.

It's kind of like ugly bedspreads: not critical to the stay but not completely insignificant, either.

Yea, I get the same emails but I don't read them or print them...
I guess you need to print the email if your name is bob smith or something.