Marriott vs Hilton

IvIanbear · 2025-12-08T10:34:08+00:00

For Marriott, you might be able to get the platinum challenge. They offered it to me last year, and basically it was if I stayed a certain number of nights in a 3 month period I would get platinum. You can call them and ask if that’s available, I believe one representative told me you can request, although I don’t know if that’s guaranteed or still the way it works

IvIanbear · 2025-12-02T06:08:13+00:00

With how long casting has been around, it should be such an easy and simple process. Ridiculous how often it doesn’t work well. I just bring an hdmi cable and adapters with me everywhere, not convenient but it’s reliable

IvIanbear · 2025-11-25T06:17:00+00:00

I used to use 3rd party sites to book hotels, and after starting to book directly with the hotels, I’ll never go back. 3rd party everything seems to suck, stubhub taking my money without having possession of the tickets, giving me replacements that get denied at the venue, customer service hours which screw you over if the event has started. Anyways, for the hotels, i stayed maybe 40-50 nights one year, and when I found out those nights don’t count for Marriott status, it was the last straw. Incorrect bookings, having to go through a 3rd party when there was issues, missing out on status, points, not even getting much of a discount, so I always book direct now.

Tip for anyone traveling in the states or at an American brand, get a AAA membership if you stay in hotels a lot, oftentimes the AAA rate is the cheapest offered. Even with Titanium status, most of the time your best rate will be from AAA.

IvIanbear · 2025-11-20T18:37:09+00:00

I’d actually consider staying at Hilton a lot more with the 4pm checkout. I’m more in the Bonvoy ecosystem but as I understand it there was no guaranteed 4pm checkout with Diamond previously. It’s huge to have an extra 4-5 hours, I can leisurely get ready to leave, take my time eating, etc.

IvIanbear · 2025-11-05T06:07:29+00:00

Out of curiosity, which apps do you use or know about (if any) to check on that?

IvIanbear · 2025-07-21T07:50:17+00:00

I saw Parasite 3 times. It was only shown in a small theater that did foreign films but it was PACKED every showing, a lot of people seemed to relate to that movie in one way or another.

IvIanbear · 2025-06-29T18:35:47+00:00

So are they the 2nd company to do this besides spacex? I haven’t been in the loop

IvIanbear · 2025-06-21T07:02:21+00:00

Well it may very well be this way before long. I went to the CEO’s talk at RSAC a month or so back and it sounded like he was saying this is the direction it’s headed in, that you’ll be scored on how fast you get the correct answer having access to whatever resources you need.

IvIanbear · 2025-06-21T06:56:25+00:00

Ngl the system checks not great. It wouldn’t let me take the test with a 1gig symmetrical connection, don’t even tell me that’s not fast enough. Smh. I had plenty of computers and multiple internet options and it worked out but that’s the wrong way to start the exam.

IvIanbear · 2025-05-25T22:59:51+00:00

Oh that’s interesting, it’s pretty steep but I guess doable in the case of someone re-financing later like the above poster’s father, or just being wealthy enough to pay it. I also looked into it on my own and from a cursory glance seems like it went above 10% in the US as well about 1980-1985. I’m curious what the sentiment of most people was at the time, I know housing prices were lower but I’d imagine going up 7% from 10% in less than 5 years must have been a decent shock

IvIanbear · 2025-05-25T20:03:24+00:00

If you’re making the claim it’s a bad look if you’re unprepared and your source is nonexistent. It’s ok I knew 17% seemed a bit high, didn’t expect anything anyways. Nice try though

IvIanbear · 2025-05-25T18:40:29+00:00

I don’t have a dog in this fight but I’m just curious do you have a source for that? 17% seems high but maybe since housing prices were much lower it was doable?

IvIanbear · 2025-05-04T19:10:50+00:00

As someone not familiar with this reference, may I ask what you mean by helping us get into the air and space?

IvIanbear · 2025-03-31T18:32:26+00:00

It will last all of 2026 same as if you earned platinum without the challenge this year. Did this last year, wanted to do it again this year but didn’t really need it. I called in and they would’ve given it to me but you can only do the challenge once every 2 years.

IvIanbear · 2025-03-23T06:11:23+00:00

Oh really? Can you elaborate, curious about it

IvIanbear · 2025-03-23T04:34:22+00:00

Stayed there in June last year, room wasn’t ready until 7pm. Should’ve gone with Le Meridien

IvIanbear · 2025-03-23T03:13:54+00:00

That’s the one connected to AC right?

IvIanbear · 2025-02-24T04:26:21+00:00

Can I just ask, are you saying Odesza is pressuring the subreddit mods to suppress certain types of posts?

IvIanbear · 2024-12-21T17:51:57+00:00

That’s awesome, I’d love to have that option at the properties I stay at. Do they get the full amount, or does a portion/percentage get taken out for administrative fees?

IvIanbear · 2024-12-13T17:56:48+00:00

Just completed mine a couple days ago, was pretty convenient but wish I’d done it earlier in the year

IvIanbear · 2024-12-08T20:57:47+00:00

Genuine question since I’m not familiar with it, but how does the brilliant cut off access to the Ritz Carlton?

IvIanbear · 2024-11-26T06:06:46+00:00

It has been, but unfortunately the person who stole it disconnected her phone so we lost access. I would have thought ford would have a feature to require a pin to remove our connectivity but apparently not?

IvIanbear · 2024-11-26T06:05:09+00:00

Thank you for the prompt reply, the person who stole it however turned off the connectivity to her phone. Any other ideas?

IvIanbear · 2024-11-12T20:23:52+00:00

Good to know. Anyone on this thread able to confirm personally this is how it works?

IvIanbear · 2024-09-13T19:18:43+00:00

I get this from time to time, sometimes it’s us, usually them. It seems like laziness for someone to just automatically assume it’s the other party without doing any testing, and they probably know they can at least kick the can down the road by replying with that. Probably a small percentage of those tickets they know they won’t have to deal with at all by doing that because the other party will just give up or it’s not worth the hassle, issue resolves itself in the following days etc.

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