WHY ARE U SCREAMING BY USING CAPs!!!
I know you have read at least 1 time what William has posted on FT, that its 1000% OK for any *W Hotel to sell ALL of its Standard rooms to a wholesaler even for the full year. If it does this then they are well within their Rights according to *W/SPG. that means yes they wont have any rooms to offer for free nights or C&P.
If U dont like this policy theres a very Simple solution dont accumulate *W pts or stay at any *W Hotel
William looked into this in depth when The Plaza was doing the exact samething and posted what I wrote above that they werent doing anything against the T&Cs of their contract = nothing he or anyone can do
At times when a Hotel does this you can use more pts and get a Deluxe Room, but no Hotel needs to offer these either.
What I dont understand is why if you know a Hotel is playing do U still want to stay there as most likey they will play games with everything as well. Now I read on numerous posts how people want to Sell their SPG pts or to buy them, or how someone is willing to pay part of the stay if they can get credit for the stay. Well,IMO if you guys can do things that are against the T&Cs of SPG then why cant the Hotels You cant have it both ways
I hope people start acting their age rather then their shoe size and this pretains to anyone who is complaining about any *W hotel while they do things that arent Kosher themselves
How dare you come here and accuse me of doing things that aren't kosher? How dare you say that I deal with buying or selling points?! For the record, I never sold or bought "1" spg point other from spg.com directly (3 years ago), and paid them the full 3.5 cents!
You are the one that proudly writes that when you travel you don't look like a Jew, but those of us that do dress somewhat Jewish, are probably making a chillul Hashem all the time. That's the wrong attitude! You can dress like a Jew and behave. You always write that people are doing things wrong, and make up wrongful accusations for no reason, just because you are mad at the world, and your shoe size being many leap years older than most viewers here. You can't make up false accusations at people, just because you had a bad day!! I'm sure there are others out there that you insulted that will agree with me.
As for your arguments, you don't make any sense. Even if you find people that do things against the t&c's, what gives established properties the right to do so as well. Even if a great whopping "10%" of spg account holders may do so, the overall majority just earn points and want to use them the kosher way. The hotels and the spg chain are big established companies, and they must play by the rules. Besides, normal hotels play by the rules, and it's just some properties in Israel that think they are above the law.
The Le Meridian Eilat is different than what you wrote about FT. They did not sell all their standard rooms to a wholesaler. They do have standard rooms, and if you call the hotel directly without mentioning Starwoods name, they will sell you a standard room in a second. Also you can go onto fattal.co.il, which is the hotel chain that owns these and other properties in Israel, and you will find standard rooms available amongst all other room types. That is no wholesaler,that's the hotel themselves!! How will you explain that when I spoke to a fattal reservation agent, and she offering me a standard room in Eilat, I then asked her why I can't have it for spg points, that she was stumped. She gave me a couple of lame excuses about miminum length of stay, and after I showed her that there is no rooms for points even for 2 weeks, she put me on hold. After speaking to her superviser she came back to me, and told me that the reason there is no availability is because, "WE DON'T TAKE STARWOOD POINTS IN JULY AND AUGUST. WHAT DO YOU WANT, WE NEED TO MAKE MONEY, THIS IS JULY AND AUGUST". I responded by telling her that while I understand that it's July and August, and it's a busy season, she needs to understand that it happens to be July and August in THE ENTIRE WORLD, and no other starwood properties in other countries play this game, and if you are a partner in February, you need to be a partner in July!
I will add that high levels in spg corporate are currently aware of this, and have passed this on to a very high level in Starwood's management.