Got a little bit of luck last night. Checked APH rates again for my stay, Jan 26th to Jan 29th. We are in a portofino parlour suite. No availability for APH rate. So I decided to check each day individually. Friday is available and Sunday is available, just not Saturday. I phoned in asking about what we could do. Essentially the reservation employee was very unhelpful. Was not able to change my rate (I expected that) but also would not modify my existing reservation. I told her what I wanted to do was to modify my existing reservation to just the saturday night and then book 1 day reso's at the APH rate on either side of it. She would not do. Kept telling me the room was not available. I told her that I already had the room, and read her their cancelation and modification of reso policy, it even states in my confirmation email that I can modify up until 5 days before, she just kept talking in circles about the room not being available. Finally I just asked to talk to a supervisor, and after 5 minutes of polite discussion she agreed to change the rate for my friday and sunday night to match that of APH rates as a 1 time "good will gesture". I'm very happy it worked out, and thanked her very much, but was unimpressed with the policy the hotel was trying to enforce. I've spent over 500 nights at various hotels over the past 7 years and never come across anything like that as far as modifying goes.