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02-24-2015, 11:00 AM
A perk is not a perk if you wouldn't pay to use it otherwise.
If I went and had to wait for something and they said I could wait in the lounge but it would cost me $5, I would laugh and say no thanks. Ergo, to me, it is not a perk.
If they said I could make reservations, but it would cost $2 additional to reserve then I might. I wouldn't for $10, but maybe $2.
The perks at GTR cost me $250 per year. The 10 "free" hours are really the first $200 of the $450, so they are not free. They are prepaid.
At 25 visits that's $10 per visit to reserve. I wouldn't pay that by itself, so like the lounge, it's not a perk. If I only went 10 times per year and just use my prepaid hours then I just paid $25 per hour to reserve. That's insane.
At OnTarget with the half-price all year I pay $250 up front, i.e. prepaid. If I use all 25 prepaid hours then it is free to reserve.
OnTarget is considerably cheeper. Having said that, I have never joined, as I only had 4 incidents last year where a reservation would have made a difference, and I did not go 25 times.
If I went and had to wait for something and they said I could wait in the lounge but it would cost me $5, I would laugh and say no thanks. Ergo, to me, it is not a perk.
If they said I could make reservations, but it would cost $2 additional to reserve then I might. I wouldn't for $10, but maybe $2.
The perks at GTR cost me $250 per year. The 10 "free" hours are really the first $200 of the $450, so they are not free. They are prepaid.
At 25 visits that's $10 per visit to reserve. I wouldn't pay that by itself, so like the lounge, it's not a perk. If I only went 10 times per year and just use my prepaid hours then I just paid $25 per hour to reserve. That's insane.
At OnTarget with the half-price all year I pay $250 up front, i.e. prepaid. If I use all 25 prepaid hours then it is free to reserve.
OnTarget is considerably cheeper. Having said that, I have never joined, as I only had 4 incidents last year where a reservation would have made a difference, and I did not go 25 times.
If I went and had to wait for something and they said I could wait in the lounge but it would cost me $5, I would laugh and say no thanks. Ergo, to me, it is not a perk.
If they said I could make reservations, but it would cost $2 additional to reserve then I might. I wouldn't for $10, but maybe $2.
The perks at GTR cost me $250 per year. The 10 "free" hours are really the first $200 of the $450, so they are not free. They are prepaid.
At 25 visits that's $10 per visit to reserve. I wouldn't pay that by itself, so like the lounge, it's not a perk. If I only went 10 times per year and just use my prepaid hours then I just paid $25 per hour to reserve. That's insane.
At OnTarget with the half-price all year I pay $250 up front, i.e. prepaid. If I use all 25 prepaid hours then it is free to reserve.
OnTarget is considerably cheeper. Having said that, I have never joined, as I only had 4 incidents last year where a reservation would have made a difference, and I did not go 25 times.