During my recent quick jaunt to Sao Paulo I had a six day stopover in New York on the return. I spent four of those days in Florida with my parents.
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Ha, we do the same trick with our parents- "We'll just redeem some points, don't worry about it." Like you, we've found that taking our parents on trips is the most fulfilling part of this whole game. It's really such a privilege to have the means to do it.
FWIW, I received a suite upgrade here on a three-night stay last year in January. However, the suite was composed simply by housekeeping having opened the double set of locking doors to the adjacent room, which also had a sofa. Since I was by myself I didn't get any use out of it.
I was also comped 1,500 points for the shuttle van not coming to pick me up at the Vinoy after I waited 30 minutes.
Agree about the lounge -- oddly decorated, but nice views, decent breakfast service, and exciting aluminum bottles. 🙂
Have you stayed the Vinoy? I'd really hoped to have made it there, but with again the recent hotel category changes, it is way too rich for my points.
@ Joe -- I haven't since I'm not a Marriott guy, though will do what I can to check it out in the future.
I'm pretty exclusively a Marriott guy, trying to get more into Hyatt and even Hilton these days, though. Hope hotel living is going well!
My mom would probably ask to be moved to another room on account of the rusty towel rack. Hope the rest of the room was in better shape.
Last Dec when my family went to Disney World at Orlando, FL, we soent two days at Residence Inn St Peterburgs (Category 3), and we watchedf sunset and went to the clear water beach. It is was a great town.
Next time stay at the Hilton St. Petersburg Carillon Park. It seems marginally better.
Terrible Management, The Hotel Staff was nice and went out of their way to may our stay pleasant but the hotel billed my Credit card $100.00 for Incidentals and I used none of the hotels amenities. Garry Sims is the GM there and even he was not sympathetic to the issue and refused to do anything to fix this issue so I had to Disputer with my Credit card Company and Hilton Corporate and still have not gotten a irresolution from this and it has now been 2 weeks since my stay.