Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ease staffing shortages

Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by ghaff on Thursday December 22, 2022 @08:38AM (#34093067)

I guess I don't see the disadvantage with Marriott or United with my company booking agency. I do prefer to book directly in general but I'm not traveling a lot now and also prefer to generally adhere to travel policy when there's not a good reason not to.

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by scarface74 on Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:08AM (#34093365)

I’m referring to this statement;

> There's no particular disadvantage to me booking Marriott through Amex

There is a big difference between booking through Concur and booking through the Amex portal.

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by ghaff on Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:19AM (#34093473)

We use Egencia which is owned by Amex. And it has all my loyalty program info.

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by scarface74 on Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:33AM (#34093617)

Ahh. You’re not talking about the public AmexTravel portal.

Your company pays the booking fee instead of the hotel. On that case, you’re probably directly charged by the hotel and Egencia charges the company/end user the fee.

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by ghaff on Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:50AM (#34093806)

Right. Egencia charges us booking fees which we expense.

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