Does Marriott honor mistake prices?
 

OK, this is a BIG mistake. I was looking for a mattress run to hit my 20 nights for the megabonus. I just finished booking 13 nights in Jan for $1.88/night. After taxes, it comes to $26.64. I don't need to stay in the room; it's a local hotel. Will they honor it?

It appears from the Residence Inn Times Square debacle that Marriott will not honor mistake rates, even mistakes on its own website.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...uare+Residence

Can you share some more details?

I searched for the lowest govt. rate (I'm military) in the DC area for January so that I could hit 20 nights for the 35K megabonus. Since I live in the DC area, it's just a mattress run for me. Out popped a $1.88/night rate; most likely was supposed to be $188/night.
I really don't care if they give me the broom closet, just as long as I'm able to get the night stay credit. I guess that I'll have to wait and see what happens on this one. I'll make backup mattress run plans, just in case. The next closest is $61.

I found a rate for earlier this summer for $1.04 at a FI in Richmond Virginia. Being the kind person that I was I e-mailed Marriott about it, they reponded indicating that it was a rate error and that the correct rate was $104. They changed the rate on my reservation. Needless to say, I cancelled my reservation and decided to stick with the $89 rate I already had reserved at a FS Marriott.

Jer

I hope they don't. Not that I have anything against the OP, but when hotels lose money on ridiculous and obviously erroneous rates, they have to recoup the loss somewhere. That just means higher rates or reduced services for everyone else.

No worries; I don't disagree with you. :cool:
I don't really want a room, I just want stay credit for cheap prices. I suppose that if I look for weekend rates in Jan, I can beat $61/night.
As far as the hotel losing money on the deal, as far as I'm concerned, they can give me an unusable room that would go vacant due to renovations/damage/remodeling/whatever. Like I said, I just want the stay credit. So while the price is rediculously low, the hotel wouldn't lose by giving me an unusable room. Of course, I'm thinking of this in my best interest ... to get the 20 nights for 35K points on the cheap. When my reservation is declined (I fully expect it to be), the question that I face will be if I'm willing to shell out $350 for 35K points and 5 nights' credit toward 2007 platinum status.

Blood and turnips come to mind ;)

Based on my experience with a small number of Marriott rate issues over the last two years, the answer is an unequivocal "no".

Conversely, I have been charged for "award stays" :td:

Pat

Hopefully the award stays have been easy to fix.
I think that I've found my solution ... a full service Marriott that offers $79 on weekends and gives $100 in bonus bucks. The net cost of doing this a few weekends will be $29 plus tax per night.

Why do you feel its worth $61 a night x 20 just to get 35k in pts? Especially if you hav eno plans to stay there and dont need to. I can understand it if You would be say 1 or 2 nights short but much more then that , it just might be cheaper to purchase that so called free night you'll get with the 35k in pts.

That $29 is more like $35+ with the taxes and x 20 = appx $700, add alittle more unless You already have a BB to use for the 1st weekend. I dont know of too many rooms that will be $700 anight.

Then again if you really want to getaway and will be staying there to relax etc, I understand Doing It.

As for myself I have a 14 night stay upcoming in Oct and that will leave me 3 nights short of requalifying for Plat. So Its worth it to me to do the other 3 stays to be Plat, Yet that will put me 3 short for the 35k , so Ill do the other 3 nights after 1/1/07 so that will count Both for the 35k and towrads my requalification for plat for '08. I wouldnt have gane after the 35k unless I was going to do most of the stays due to Need rather than Mattress Running

I expect to come up ~5 nights short. I'd need to do 6 nights to use the bonus bucks. That'd be $35x6 = $210.
It's also about qualifying for Plat status. I'm at 60 right now; I expect to just barely make it at the end of the year. If I miss, I'll do a mattress run in Jan (my first stay in 2006 was in Feb). Having the nights count for both the 12 month lookback and for 2007 is a big bennie.

Why not just get the Premier Visa...that will give you 15 nights credit toward your status, not to mention the 15,000 bonus points, free Cat 4 1 night cert, and 2-for-1 golf cert. Well worth the $65 fee IMO.

I've already got it.

You can get it again & should be able to get the benefits, points, and certs again too, FYI...

????? Are you saying that I could achieve platinum status by merely opening and closing a credit card account five times in a year? (15 x 5 = 75) If so, that's an interesting loophole.