Elite coming for a weekend or with the family? Skip it.
I spent extra money to stay at this full service Marriott for a Memorial Day family getaway and that was a mistake. As a business traveler and Lifetime Platinum Elite member, I assumed that we’d have access to the lounge over the weekend (as you do in my home market of Kansas City) even when the lounge is “closed.” A closed lounge often means free packaged snacks and drinks and a breakfast voucher. At this hotel, the lounge was fully closed (locked) and vending machines were absent, so I had to buy $$$$ drinks in the gift shop. What’s more, for breakfast, my voucher gave only the continent