Please bring back the grid [style of results from property search]
Aug 21, 2018, 9:17 pm
#16
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: IAH
Programs: DL DM, Hyatt Ist-iest, Stariott Platinum, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 12,788
Agreed. The Marriott website has long sucked. While the SPG website wasn't perfect it was at least far faster and more intuitive than the Marriott one.
Aug 21, 2018, 9:31 pm
#17
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Rutherfordton, NC USA
Programs: Marriott PP+A / LTPP
Posts: 30
Agreed. The grid was a much more efficient way to review options and book rooms
Aug 22, 2018, 1:13 am
#18
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Miami, FL
Programs: UA 1MM, AA Plat, Marriott LT Titanium, Hyatt Glob, IHG ♢ Amb, Hilton ♢, Hertz Pres
Posts: 6,016
The grid still exists. Here's how to get to it:
1- You must use the SPG site logon (do not go to the Marriott site). Use this link to begin the logon process: https://www.marriott.com/default.mi?...spg&reset=true You must use your new SPG# to get in (or your email as long as it is NOT the same email you used to log onto Marriott) and be sure you DO NOT merge your acct or this login option will be lost to you.
2- Do a search and find a property in the city. Then click on the rate shown to choose a room.
3- At the room level you will switch over URLs to starwoodhotels.com and will now see a new skin that appears to be the old Starwood site. It has an option to use the change rates grid like always.
1- You must use the SPG site logon (do not go to the Marriott site). Use this link to begin the logon process: https://www.marriott.com/default.mi?...spg&reset=true You must use your new SPG# to get in (or your email as long as it is NOT the same email you used to log onto Marriott) and be sure you DO NOT merge your acct or this login option will be lost to you.
2- Do a search and find a property in the city. Then click on the rate shown to choose a room.
3- At the room level you will switch over URLs to starwoodhotels.com and will now see a new skin that appears to be the old Starwood site. It has an option to use the change rates grid like always.
Aug 22, 2018, 5:10 am
#19
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: England - UK
Posts: 512
The thing for me is with the grid I'd often see other properties that I would be interested in staying at and then you could just save them as favorites. I've only saved one for future trips since they changed the layout.
Aug 22, 2018, 9:20 am
#20
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: lounge next door
Programs: *A Gold / ST Elite+ / OWS / EK G / HH Diam. / MR Tit / Hyatt GLOB / IHG Diam. / SL Jade / GHA Tit.
Posts: 1,527
Missing so much the SPG search... was perfect.
Marriott website has never been that good and now it's even worst.
Already missed my SPG (-
Marriott website has never been that good and now it's even worst.
Already missed my SPG (-
Aug 22, 2018, 12:45 pm
#21
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: LGA/JFK/EWR
Programs: UA 1K1.75MM, Hyatt Globalist, abandoned Marriott LTT (RIP SPG), Hertz PC
Posts: 21,167
OMG the SET rates are now so terrible. Big downside of consolidation.
Aug 22, 2018, 1:41 pm
#22
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: HEL
Programs: SPG LTP, hotels, OWE, STE+, *G, Octopus
Posts: 5,783
The grid still exists. Here's how to get to it:
1- You must use the SPG site logon (do not go to the Marriott site). Use this link to begin the logon process: https://www.marriott.com/default.mi?...spg&reset=true You must use your new SPG# to get in (or your email as long as it is NOT the same email you used to log onto Marriott) and be sure you DO NOT merge your acct or this login option will be lost to you.
2- Do a search and find a property in the city. Then click on the rate shown to choose a room.
3- At the room level you will switch over URLs to starwoodhotels.com and will now see a new skin that appears to be the old Starwood site. It has an option to use the change rates grid like always.
1- You must use the SPG site logon (do not go to the Marriott site). Use this link to begin the logon process: https://www.marriott.com/default.mi?...spg&reset=true You must use your new SPG# to get in (or your email as long as it is NOT the same email you used to log onto Marriott) and be sure you DO NOT merge your acct or this login option will be lost to you.
2- Do a search and find a property in the city. Then click on the rate shown to choose a room.
3- At the room level you will switch over URLs to starwoodhotels.com and will now see a new skin that appears to be the old Starwood site. It has an option to use the change rates grid like always.
Aug 22, 2018, 5:32 pm
#23
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Iowa City, IA
Posts: 337
The grid still exists. Here's how to get to it:
1- You must use the SPG site logon (do not go to the Marriott site). Use this link to begin the logon process: https://www.marriott.com/default.mi?...spg&reset=true You must use your new SPG# to get in (or your email as long as it is NOT the same email you used to log onto Marriott) and be sure you DO NOT merge your acct or this login option will be lost to you.
2- Do a search and find a property in the city. Then click on the rate shown to choose a room.
3- At the room level you will switch over URLs to starwoodhotels.com and will now see a new skin that appears to be the old Starwood site. It has an option to use the change rates grid like always.
1- You must use the SPG site logon (do not go to the Marriott site). Use this link to begin the logon process: https://www.marriott.com/default.mi?...spg&reset=true You must use your new SPG# to get in (or your email as long as it is NOT the same email you used to log onto Marriott) and be sure you DO NOT merge your acct or this login option will be lost to you.
2- Do a search and find a property in the city. Then click on the rate shown to choose a room.
3- At the room level you will switch over URLs to starwoodhotels.com and will now see a new skin that appears to be the old Starwood site. It has an option to use the change rates grid like always.
Aug 23, 2018, 10:28 am
#24
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Our Nation's Capital
Programs: UA 1K, Marriott BonVoy LT Titanium Elite, National Executive Elite
Posts: 832
I hate everything about the new site.
I hereby apologize to all the legacy UA flyers back in 2012 - I can understand your pain.
I hereby apologize to all the legacy UA flyers back in 2012 - I can understand your pain.
Aug 23, 2018, 1:00 pm
#25
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Washington, DC
Programs: UA 1K/1MM; Marriott Lifetime Titanium, Hilton Diamond, Hyatt Globalist,
Posts: 180
Totally agree on the grid. It now takes much longer and more clicks to find the best property and rate for my criteria each time I book.
Aug 23, 2018, 2:35 pm
#26
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Albany, NY
Programs: ANA Mileage Plus, Southwest Rapid Rewards, Amtrak Guest Rewards, SPG
Posts: 7
I really took that grid for granted, I was annoyed that I always had to change the columns to the rates I wanted to see. I never thought they'd take it away entirely and make us do it one by one, that is insane! I have no Mariott rewards account to merge to but I did get some sort of new account number when I most recently logged in, am I screwed against ever getting the grid back?
Edit: Was able to get to the 'four rates' screen for a specific property using the steps mentioned earlier, but there appears to be no way to search a city/region and get them.
Edit: Was able to get to the 'four rates' screen for a specific property using the steps mentioned earlier, but there appears to be no way to search a city/region and get them.
Last edited by Primary Consult; Aug 23, 2018 at 2:48 pm Reason: self-answered
Sep 2, 2018, 2:48 pm
#27
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: check swarm
Programs: DL DM & 2MM, SPG/Bonvoid LT Titanium, Hyatt Globalist, $tarbucks Titanium
Posts: 14,404
Amen! It tells you a little about the culture clash between the 2 companies when MR members (who may have other priorities) clearly put up with and accepted an inferior site and booking process.
Sep 2, 2018, 3:49 pm
#28
Join Date: May 2005
Programs: Marriott LT Titanium, Hilton LT Diamond, AA LT Platinum
Posts: 426
The Marriott flexible calendar is far far superior to SPG. You can see an entire month of the cheapest rate or if you put in the AAA rate you can see the rate for each day for an entire month. On SPG you have to put in day by day - extremely laborious and slow.
Sep 3, 2018, 12:56 am
#29
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Miami, FL
Programs: UA 1MM, AA Plat, Marriott LT Titanium, Hyatt Glob, IHG ♢ Amb, Hilton ♢, Hertz Pres
Posts: 6,016
However certain rates on Marriott must be searched for by day, and are "not eligible" for the flexible calendar search. Why they wouldn't be eligible is beyond me - since we CAN see them day by day.
Sep 4, 2018, 6:56 am
#30
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,933
The more SPG properties there were in an area, the less well I thought it worked.
Imagine now that it had to quintuple in size.
So if Marriott were to bring back something like that, I think instead of making it the default search (which they'll never do), maybe they could make a checkbox for "compare hotels" and then a "compare" button, and that is what would bring up something like that grid, but on for the hotels you had selected.
Marriott can easily return 100+ hotels in a search, and that wouldn't work at well in that grid IMHO. But I bet you never saw anywhere near that many hotels every, anywhere, in a an SPG search, simply because SPG was a much smaller program in terms of properties.