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Emily

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Last year I stayed in a the Philadelphia Marriott at the convention center. It was probably the best night sleep - bedding and mattress that I ever experienced. I was there for a trade show of buyers and before I checked out I got the name of the vendor where they order the bedding soft goods. I now see they sell both mattresses and linens on their website.

Last weekend, DH and kids took me to Baltimore for Mother's Day and we stayed at the Marriott Baltimore Waterfront. The rooms had the same great beds and softgoods. My entire family liked the beds and bedding.

Do the Marriott timeshares put the same bedding in units or is this just the hotels?

Thanks
Emily
 
based upon my limited experience...the matresses in the hotels are better than the timeshares (the Courtyard beds are also better)
 
Grande Vista is or has put in the new beds.
 
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Marriott is planning to upgrade the bedding of the timeshare resorts with the Revive bedding through the regular refurb schedule. It's happening at Summit Watch over the next year.
 
my pet peeve

This has been my pet peeve for years, BUT Marriott has finally heard from all of us, loud and clear. We stayed at one of our home resorts, Barony Beach Club, recently and they have changed out all the bedding to a fantastic mattress and very plush oversized pillows and all the other bedding stuff. It was the best night's sleep I've had in a timeshare, period.

Now I understand that my favorite home resort, Grande Ocean, has also made the upgrade. Finally!!! It was amazing that a medium-tier hotel anywhere could have a better mattress and bedding than a $30,000+ timeshare where one stays a week each year. If you do the math, it doesn't take owners that much to afford this upgrade, maybe even as low as a few dollars on a one-time basis. I still cannot believe it took this long. Gone are the days of a plywood board under the 6-inch FOAM "mattress", which was not even a mattress. jme
 
Looks can be deceiving with Revive bedding.

I think Marriott BeachPlace Towers is the only timeshare without plans to put in the fantastic Revive bedding. Even Marriott Canyon Villas, just 3 years old, has put them in, and from what I've heard most MVCI resorts will be changing soon if they haven't already.

Looks can be deceiving when it comes to Revive bedding. Since Feb, I've been in about 20 different full-service Marriotts and while I found most of them were great, there were some variances in the mattresses. Most, I assume, were the new Marriott 'standard' but some were so hard it makes me think Marriott is allowing some hotels to not change the mattresses if they do a 'look' change with the sheets, scarf, pillows, featherbed, etc.

Marriott Griffen Gate in KY for instance has the Tempur-Pedic mattresses but are 'dressed' to look like Revive beds. I found it so hard it was the worst sleep I've had at a Marriott in years...even at the timeshares. Yet, others rave about them. Their website does comment on them so they weren't hiding anything, but I much prefer the new Marriott Revive standard mattress.

http://marriott.com/hotels/travel/lexky-griffin-gate-marriott-resort/

I'm at the Wentworth By The Sea Marriott right now and the Revive 'look' is here, but not the mattress - it's just enough harder than the 'standard' IMO to notice the difference and they don't have down pillows which I thought were standard too. Still, it's a great hotel.

http://www.wentworth.com/

Brian
 
We love the bedding at most Marriotts, including our TS, Aruba Surf Club.

A lot of the stuff is made by Pacific Coast Feather Company and you can order the pillows and some of the linens from them. My husband got a couple of the Marriott Down Surround pillows a couple of years ago and loves them.
 
Has anyone stayed at GO since bedding was replaced?

We begin a week's stay on Friday 5/25, and the bedding is at GO is usually our only complaint there. Does anyone know if the bedding has been replaced in all the units? Was it done during the recent refurbishment?

I have already made a unit request, but will revise to beg for new bedding if only a partial replacement has been done...
Kim
 
Kim R said:
We begin a week's stay on Friday 5/25, and the bedding is at GO is usually our only complaint there. Does anyone know if the bedding has been replaced in all the units? Was it done during the recent refurbishment?

I have already made a unit request, but will revise to beg for new bedding if only a partial replacement has been done...
Kim
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I had heard that GO's bedding had already been done in EVERY unit, but I just called the resort to confirm (843-686-7343) , and the MGO spa desk said unequivocably that "every unit" has had the bedding changeover. I re-asked the question two different ways, citing Barony and others, and she still said "Yes, sir, it's all been changed in every unit". I am due to be there at GO for 3 consecutive weeks in June, so I'm certainly glad myself....it's a wonderful job they did in the change, as it's VERY comfortable and also beautiful at Barony and elsewhere. Glad to hear that my FAVORITE home resort of GO is done. jme
 
Thank you!

Thank you for taking the time to make that call! Grande Ocean is my favorite, too, and hopefully I will be an owner there one day - I would have bought from the developer when they built the second phase, but couldn't talk my husband into it.

I'm counting the days until what is usually our best week of the year - on Hilton Head Island.
 
Even when Marriott "upgrades" the Timeshare bedding it is still crappy. Stayed 3 weeks @ Ocean Pointe recently & although the beds "looked" different we did not see any big improvement. The "crsip white linens" that Cheryl Moore (the Manager) raved about in a letter to Owners were a figment of her imagination! The sheets we had had "pilled" badly. I stripped the bed & turned the sheets over so you cld not feel the "pilling". The mattresses did not appear new, only the mattress cover. It kept slipping & moving all over the place. The pillows were badly stained. I like the duvets a lot & that is a welcome change. ( the white towels are also pretty bad....very badly worn, grey & stained...they shd all be tossed & we shd get all new ones)
 
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We were at OP in December and had the new bedding which was as advertised. I am not a big fan, as I think it is too hot (big comforter and that feather-bed thing in tropical locations). Probably just me, though. Also too many pillows for me. MOst like this stuff, I was happy with the old 4" foam pad. I am sure I am the only one.
 
I can confirm that the Surf Club bedding has been updated. My understanding is that the Revive package does not necessarily include a new mattress -- it is all in the sheets and pillows, etc. That could explain the variance in the mattresses.
 
I think they put some kind of pillow-top mattress cover on teh bed. You sleep under a big comforter and on top of some fluffy down-like gizmo. It would be great if I was in the Ice Hotel in January, but on the Florida Beach I could use a little less insulation. We had the same thing in Marriott hotels.
 
Mike: Ok,now I know what you mean...the "padded mattress cover". It's a feeble attempt to make the mattress appear more luxurious. The darn thing keeps moving around. Did you have pilled sheets on your bed @ OP?
 
DAGJAM said:
...My understanding is that the Revive package does not necessarily include a new mattress -- \.
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That in itself defeats the purpose of standardization and/or consistency and in the long run Marriott is playing games with us. You assume 'Revive' Bedding means everything, not just the sheets. No doubt, some timeshare HOA's will take the cheap route and not change the mattresses because they cost $1500 each.

Brian
 
OP beds last week of April 07 still had 6 (or was it less) inch foam with poor foundation and the plywood when asked. Both bedrooms had it.

THere was also the cotton felt protector on the 'mattress' , then the plywood, then the very white fancy pillow type feather protector...with the corners that seemed to need a 14 inch or deeper mattress (hence the 'float' on that protector). We took it off and folded it on top of the dresser.

Driving down, we stayed at a Fairfield that had the new bedding on an old foam bed. The staff there knew what to do. Since the bedding was oversized for that old mattress, they simply used a stapler to hem the bedding all around, bringing it 'up' a few inches. It 'looked' good.

I see on TA, that Fairfield is now a Quality Inn.

Returning from Fl, the Brunswick Fairfield was OK....but no comparison to the Hampton we stayed at the next night. (Talking about the physical stuff, not the staff)
 
Bedding

The Marriott Grande Vista has recently changed all its rooms over to the new hotel bedding and it is wonderful.
 
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