English Guides

Eating Around is a Tokyo based blog about hotel elite benefits and local food. For our city guides, we email every Marriott hotel in the city directly and ask what Platinum and Titanium members actually receive: breakfast, executive lounge access, room upgrades, late checkout and the welcome gift. Each guide is built from the hotels’ own replies, quoted in full.

Below are the English editions of the city guides. New cities are added as the replies come in.

Tokyo

24 hotels asked, 18 replied, covering Tokyo, Chiba and Kanagawa. Only 6 offer complimentary executive lounge access as an elite benefit, and a 4 pm late checkout is guaranteed at only 2 hotels.

Seoul

All 22 Marriott hotels in Seoul replied. Only 6 have an executive lounge, and a 4 pm late checkout is rarely guaranteed in writing.

Hong Kong

15 hotels asked, 14 replied, from The Ritz-Carlton on the harbour to the airport hotels in Tung Chung.

Bangkok

30 hotels asked, 26 replied. The largest guide in the series, covering the riverside, Sukhumvit and Ploenchit areas.

Kuala Lumpur

18 hotels asked, 14 replied, across KL Sentral, Bukit Bintang and the city centre.

Singapore

19 hotels asked, 15 replied, from Marina Bay and Orchard to Sentosa.

Taipei

14 hotels asked, 12 replied, covering the Marriott hotels of Taipei one by one.

Reading Japanese? The original Japanese editions and the rest of the blog are at eating-around.com.

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