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UncleDude Jul 21, 2017 12:10 pm

Platinum Benefit Enhancement or Glitch
 
Welcome Platinum Preferred Guest®

It’s a pleasure to have you stay with us. As a SPG® Platinum Member, you’ll receive all the benefits of a SPG Preferred Guest, plus much more! Your SPG Platinum benefits include:
•Room upgrade to our best available room upon check-in
•4pm late check-out
•Access to the Sheraton Club Lounge

We want to enhance your experience in the most appropriate way. Please help us by choosing one of the following SPG Platinum Member welcome gifts you value most and filling out the form on the right:
•500 Starpoints®
Complimentary high-speed internet access
•Local amenity

Hope this is a Glitch, and YES the reservation was made online through SPG.com

KENNECTED Jul 21, 2017 12:22 pm


Originally Posted by UncleDude (Post 28588801)
Welcome Platinum Preferred Guest®

It’s a pleasure to have you stay with us. As a SPG® Platinum Member, you’ll receive all the benefits of a SPG Preferred Guest, plus much more! Your SPG Platinum benefits include:
•Room upgrade to our best available room upon check-in
•4pm late check-out
•Access to the Sheraton Club Lounge

We want to enhance your experience in the most appropriate way. Please help us by choosing one of the following SPG Platinum Member welcome gifts you value most and filling out the form on the right:
•500 Starpoints®
Complimentary high-speed internet access
•Local amenity

Hope this is a Glitch, and YES the reservation was made online through SPG.com

No it's not a glitch. Not all that book, book online or through a SPG/Starwood channel.
New Benefit for Platinum Members of SPG (free internet)
Free Internet for SPG Platinum : Standard or Premium ? - Discussion

thomasito Jul 21, 2017 1:12 pm

Should't the options be:

• 500 Starpoints
• (At least Continental) Breakfast
• Local amenity

mahasamatman Jul 21, 2017 1:13 pm


Originally Posted by thomasito (Post 28589015)
Should't the options be:

• 500 Starpoints
• (At least Continental) Breakfast
• Local amenity

#2 doesn't apply if the property has a lounge.

Premium Internet is a Platinum benefit and not a choice. (It is a choice for Gold, which may be where the text came from.)

CPRich Jul 21, 2017 1:32 pm


Originally Posted by KENNECTED (Post 28588833)
Not all the book, book online or through a SPG/Starwood channel.

???

Horace Jul 21, 2017 2:21 pm


Originally Posted by mahasamatman (Post 28589020)
#2
Premium Internet is a Platinum benefit and not a choice. (It is a choice for Gold, which may be where the text came from.)

Chart with current Internet benefits, based on SPG level:

https://spgpromos.com/internet/

"Gold members receive free premium Internet, in addition to their welcome gift, when booking with SPG online."

If I'm reading it correctly, Platinum members get free premium Internet, regardless of how the room is booked. But for Gold, members, it's only if the room is booked with booked with SPG online.

So, although it's a choice for Gold members, there's no reason to make that choice if the room was booked with with SPG online.

KENNECTED Jul 21, 2017 3:10 pm


Originally Posted by CPRich (Post 28589113)
???

🤦🏽.♂️ the should be that.

mahasamatman Jul 21, 2017 3:30 pm


Originally Posted by Horace (Post 28589306)
So, although it's a choice for Gold members, there's no reason to make that choice if the room was booked with with SPG online.

Yet I've been asked that question for every booking I've had since being Gold.


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