News and notes from around the interweb:
- Free Atlantis Stay via Caesars Total Rewards Diamond: What To Expect with Room Fees, Food Costs, and More
- The Preferred Hotels iPrefer program will give you 5000 points for voting in their Members Choice awards. It takes 12,500 points to earn a $25 reward certificate. The program offers status matching, by the way.
- Air Canada’s acquisition of Aeroplan has cleared regulatory approval
- Ultimate IT Fix, Turn it Off and On: Deleting and re-installing the Marriott app made award space appear of course it did.
- Hotels want guests spending more time in the lobby. They’re squeezing more rooms into the same footprint, so the lobby is where you work. And, food and beverage spend. Well, maybe this Portland DoubleTree doesn’t want all their guests in the lobby…
That DoubleTree incident is despicable enough to have warranted its own post. That’s absolutely outrageous to call the cops on a guest with no probable cause other than the man’s color of his skin. That security guard is a racist POS and the cop proves that he’s nothing but a capitalist tool of a racist system. The security guard should be fired, racists make places less secure by initiating this kind of bull.
It’s all very complicated but if you’re a betting “man” …hey, what are the odds of being born white in America? It’s a longshot.
Something is missing here….
OF COURSE the black guy ran right to screaming “racism”…. smdh.
He’s not telling us SOMETHING.
Sure it was a race issue, sure it was,hotels kick you out all the time for phone calls ,LOL
Is this an early april fools joke?
Portland Doubletree is on my sh:tlist. Thanks, I can easily avoid them.
White folks always think there is another “side” to the story…just read a story about a white young man kicking a black toddler in a public racist fit, ‘just because he could” and people are always still shocked by this behavior. I have lived in the south all my life and find that it certainly isn’t limited to the south, but racist behavior and actions are EVERYWHERE and BLATANT and there doesn’t have to be a ‘reason” other than the fact that “Earl” was probably pissed off because he saw a black man who was in a hotel that Earl himself likely couldn’t afford to stay in! White cops pulling over black drivers because they resent the fact they’re driving a nicer car or wearing nicer clothes…YOU may think it is unthinkable and, if so, good for you, but believe me when I say, it is NOT. It happens with a regularity that is appalling and black people and other people of color have to go through this on a daily basis (Starbucks? Airlines? Hotels? Stores?) how many videos of this behavior must we watch before we realize this is not that “unusual” or “rare” and it is covered up, not shared, glossed over more than we ever know. In small towns all over the U.S. it happens and people of color know BETTER than to try to record it, share it, etc because when the CNN camera crews leave they have to worry about the inevitable retaliation like continual traffic stops, tickets, job loss for them and family members to violence toward them. It is VERY real and VERY much a daily event in our country, you need only to open your eyes and see it.