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Originally Posted by CJKatl
(Post 29035838)
Which is respectable and admirable. Unfortunately, I'd have no problem feeling a little cheap, but we now know you are a better person than I. ;) OK, we probably knew that already. :rolleyes: :D
And after a little more digging I'm coming up with more and more great alternatives, so I'll have to weigh my options. |
Originally Posted by CJKatl
(Post 29035312)
(1) You do realize that only on night 1 should there be a Welcome Gift. Because it is a six night stay you do not get six Welcome Gifts, per the rules. Yes, it often works out that you do but it's not guaranteed. If you don't get credit you cannot call Marriott and insist they break the rules. The people at Marriott are not stupid. They've written the rules specifically so they can stop people from doing this. Again, they don't always enforce their rule, but it's clearly in the rules.
(2) Easy solution: call the hotel and explain "we want to get benefits for both nights so we made two different reservations." If the hotel says yes, the problem is solved. Of course, nobody will call out of fear the hotel will say no, so trying to get away with it by being quiet is gaming the system. Yes, it will probably work, but given that in this instance the benefits cost the hotel directly, it might not. It's not a moral question, it's a question of are the guests staying at the hotel two nights in a row. The answer is clearly yes, although you seem to want to justify why it's not. Justification only comes into play when you know what your are doing is wrong. You never have to justify what is acceptable per the printed rules. If I were the OP, I'd probably take the chance, but I'd be prepared to accept if the hotel says, "Wait a minute..." |
I guess it depends what the benefit is, but I've done exactly what the OP proposed on several occasions and never had a problem at the front desk. In fact, never bothered horsing around with changing names.
My examples *usually* involve golf packages. I'm staying a golf resort for a few days, they have a package deal, and I want to play golf on, say, 3 out of 5 days. So it's a couple different 1-2 night stays, some including golf and some not. Usually it's easy to calculate the benefit of the golf package: I know what the green fee would be and what the room would cost, and maybe the package saves me fifty bucks or something. I suppose a rate included a substantial resort credit that they didn't want to be nightly, they would just control it with a minimum-stay requirement. |
Originally Posted by pinniped
(Post 29035938)
I suppose a rate included a substantial resort credit that they didn't want to be nightly, they would just control it with a minimum-stay requirement.
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Originally Posted by RogerD408
(Post 29035906)
Actually, splitting the six night stay is a form of hotel hopping... It's just that you are changing members instead of properties. A 1-3-5 and 2-4-6 arrangement should garner six PAGs and six stay credits, three for each account.
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