EXACTLY!! the problem is that from JULY 1- AUGUST 31, THEY ARE PURPOSELY CHEATING THE SYSTEM, AND NOT PUTTING ANY STANDARD ROOMS AVAILABLE EVEN FOR MONEY not in Eilat nor in the Dead Sea no matter if you put in 4 days or 34 days! They are lying to spg by not putting any Standard rooms, and therefore they don't have to take points!
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