<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31957505.post-3957114469179274943</id><published>2008-12-12T12:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T12:54:58.775-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='starwood hotels'/><title type='text'>Starwood Platinum Upgrades</title><content type='html'>I am not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but almost every property that I stay at within starwood is making excuses that all their suites are under construction.  Except Planet Hollywood.  I have been at the W Chicago City center and got the same useless excuse as the Westin Dublin.  I never get upgrades at the Sheraton Towers in Times Square, but heading there tomorrow, we'll see what happens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The funny thing is that I know employee's who get upgraded without any question and never an excuse.  I will play along for a little longer, but at some point I will give up on this sham.  I am naming this the Platinum blow off, they think we have all tasted the cool aid and we will continue to fall for it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31957505-3957114469179274943?l=www.aaronshear.com%2Fblog%2Findex.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31957505/3957114469179274943/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31957505&amp;postID=3957114469179274943' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31957505/posts/default/3957114469179274943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31957505/posts/default/3957114469179274943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.aaronshear.com/blog/2008/12/starwood-platinum-upgrades.html' title='Starwood Platinum Upgrades'/><author><name>Aaron Shear</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16766660862891069901</uri><email>ashear@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='03022645335592770670'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry>