Marriott Launches ‘Work Anywhere’ Package

Marriott has followed Hyatt’s lead and is now offering ‘Work Anywhere’ packages. Marriott will be offering three separate passes.

  • Day pass. This gives you access to a room from 6AM until 6PM, you also get access to business facilities (printing, fax & scanning) where available. This is being offered in Atlanta, Phoenix, Dallas, New York, Toronto, London, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, with planned expansion in Europe, Middle East and Latin America.
  • Stay pass. This gives you access to a room from 6AM until 6PM the following day (early check in/late check out). You’re also able to access the business facilities (see above) and regular facilities (e.g pool).
  • Play pass. More or less a regular stay but also provides things such as business concierge, supervised kids’ activities, preferred office/study spaces along with curated experiences for the whole family to enjoy. This is available in  Bali, Venice, Hawaii, Florida, California, Arizona, Cancun, Rio de Janeiro, Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt), Limassol (Cyprus), Koh Samui (Thailand), and Marabella and Tenerife (Spain).

Stay pass is nice due to the early check in/late check out option (basically gives you two working days). How useful this packages are will really depend on the pricing.

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CM
CM (@guest_1084032)
November 3, 2020 10:48

> Say goodbye to lackluster Wi-Fi and your make-shift kitchen table desk for the day.

> A private room with reliable Wi-Fi and easy access power outlets allows you to maximize your productivity so you can get the most out of your workday.

This is a very ironic statement. The only reason their “Wi-Fi” is “reliable” right now, is because noone’s staying.

Reliability of the underlying upstream to the internet is the same it’s always been in any US hotel — lackluster for most properties, to say the least. If you don’t believe this, go and call the help number for your fav rewards hotline, and ask what guarantees they provide for “reliable Wi-Fi”. The answer is — none — it’s up to each individual property. You’re getting 0.1 MB/s? Yeah, that’s high-speed!

An individual hotel may provide 8Mbps (1MB/s) per device or 24Mbps (3MB/s) with Premium Internet, but that’s merely the throttling speed of your own connection — if their total uplink is still just 100Mbps for over 125+ rooms, then the only reason Wi-Fi is presently reliable is because occupancy rate is below 25%.

Thus, ironically, we can thank COVID19 for the hotels finally having reliable Wi-Fi due to the underutilisation of a normally under-provisioned resource.

Jenny
Jenny (@guest_1080268)
October 27, 2020 19:59

I’m surprised that Marriott isn’t trying to offer points deals on these packages as it’d have been a good opportunity to get lots of points from bored people who would otherwise have used them where they got better value.

calwatch
calwatch (@guest_1080227)
October 27, 2020 18:43

Red Roof was doing work day deals, but ironically many cities have anti-flophouse/hooker hotel rules that bar a room from rented more than twice in 24 hours or in a calendar day, or have a minimum rental time of 12 hours. Looks like Marriott might just meet that, while Red Roof didn’t (and at $39 or so, was well propositioned for those who wanted a daytime quickie).

Parkerthon
Parkerthon (@guest_1080298)
October 27, 2020 21:02

Seems to me flipping same room in a day is not hygienic in any case. Given disinfecting/cleaning a room is kind of important, that’s way worse that they’d rent a room twice in 24 hours period. I just assumed they were putting time limits on daytime work rooms to make some extra money on rooms they wouldn’t book on a given week night anyway with covid killing business travel.

CM
CM (@guest_1084062)
November 3, 2020 11:41

I mean, they clean rooms in like 30 minutes or so. During the regular business outside of COVID19 for normal business hotels, it wouldn’t necessarily be news to have a room vacated at 13:00 for late checkout, cleaned right away, and have someone check-in to the same room at 14:45 or so, whilst it’s still freshly wet from the cleaning.

So, what difference does it make if you stay in the room overnight or just for 3 hours?