All guests must request the «The
Taste Awards room block» in order to receive the above mentioned special rates.
The exact type
of award rooms depend on the property, and you'll notice that there may be options to use points plus a cash copay per night for an upgraded room.
The promotion is offering a number of discounts
on Award room redemptions between now and the end of February.
The Hilton Honors program recently removed award charts and hotel categories and introduced dynamic pricing, which means that
award room rates are tied to the cash price on any given day.
Shangri - Laâ $ ™ s Golden Circle runs fairly frequent Less Is More promotions offeringÂ
discounted Award rooms.
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While
Hyatt award rooms are typically completely free of charge, a tax of roughly $ 5 per night is levied at all hotels in Zurich and appears to apply to award nights, as well; this charge is customarily collected at the hotel, whether booking in advance or not.
As a small sampling, for many dates in September, Hyatt still has
award rooms available at the Hyatt Place Pensacola for 8,000 points per night, the Grand Hyatt Manchester San Diego for 20,000 points per night, or the Hyatt Centric Key West for 25,000 points per night.
If you checked the «My dates are flexible» box, you'll get a calendar that shows you when
standard award rooms are available:
Hilton HHonors adds that it is never trying to make a profit off
of award rooms.
However, for savvy and discriminating travelers, suite upgrades and the ability to «force» standard revenue or
award room availability at overbooked properties, which HH Diamonds can do when the chips are down through «HH Diamond Force», are infinitely more valuable benefits.
Plus, you may find your options too limited, since most hotels are located in the U.S. and properties can put strict limits
on awards rooms.
Happily,
award rooms were available for each of the requested nights of the trip.
They also excluded Choice Privileges from the study due to the limited to booking
award rooms 30 days in advance — the same reason why I find Choice Privileges to be fairly useless!
You do need to run through the maths to determine whether or not you are better taking
an Award room, or purchasing a normal revenue room.
As you can use the points to make
an award room booking, ultimately, the value of points depends on the rooms that you can redeem the points for.
Currently
no award rooms can be booked.
Hilton will give you a standard room for their standard rate of it is available for cash, same as SPG and Hyatt (unlike Marriott, Carlson, and IHG, that limit the number of
award rooms).
And Hyatt points are attractive, with some of the best redemption rates for its top properties: 22,000 Hyatt Gold Passport points, even for properties such as the Park Hyatt Paris or Park Hyatt Maldives, and if you book during a time when
that award room (or suite, in the case of the all - suite Park Hyatt Maldives) would normally go for $ 1000 / night, you're getting 4.5 cents per point in face value.