rayonline
Jun 16, 12, 7:39 pm
Hi, just wondering how useful do you find hotel plans for personal use, ie., vacations.
Freq flyers might be ok for status like Aegean and to get the odd maybe shorter flight for free etc.. and maybe for those for a bit of comfort for one of the leg-flights. People have to get to the destination so FFPs can be useful.
But I am just wondering for hotels. If you one doesn't stay many nights per the year ... Some hotels do allow people to maintain their status if you have at least one night for the year. But to get a status upgrade you may need 20 nights or 10 visits. Bit hard if you don't primarily have a city vacation right and the costs involved, I guess some people on vacation may get some of the holiday places than hotels. And the thing is if you are in the city you might need to rely on fewer hotels than the hotel you like to go to cos that doesn't improve your points. Like your views on this. I am sort of thinking that for hotels maybe just skip the freebies and status and maybe just sign up for a freebie low level status for that hotel you plan to stay at ... so at least you get a few cheeries but not big ones.
Some some info:
100% leisure, self funded.
Mainly SE Asia destinations (overeas).
May stay 5-10 nights per year pending annual leave of course and study leave. May not be all in the big cities as I may be travelling to the smaller towns etc. Main determinant is price. I tend to use hotel search engines.
Just want a nice location, tidy, modern hotel etc .. won't use room service, restaurants, pool or gym etc ..
I have a trip coming up and b/c I do photography. The best hotel in Kuala Lumpur appears to be the Traders which is a Shagri-la partner, with its Twin Tower facing rooms plus it's Skybar which can see that also. But ... then that kinda restricts me to the Shangri-la program. I could do other hotels but just means I need to do less.
Freq flyers might be ok for status like Aegean and to get the odd maybe shorter flight for free etc.. and maybe for those for a bit of comfort for one of the leg-flights. People have to get to the destination so FFPs can be useful.
But I am just wondering for hotels. If you one doesn't stay many nights per the year ... Some hotels do allow people to maintain their status if you have at least one night for the year. But to get a status upgrade you may need 20 nights or 10 visits. Bit hard if you don't primarily have a city vacation right and the costs involved, I guess some people on vacation may get some of the holiday places than hotels. And the thing is if you are in the city you might need to rely on fewer hotels than the hotel you like to go to cos that doesn't improve your points. Like your views on this. I am sort of thinking that for hotels maybe just skip the freebies and status and maybe just sign up for a freebie low level status for that hotel you plan to stay at ... so at least you get a few cheeries but not big ones.
Some some info:
100% leisure, self funded.
Mainly SE Asia destinations (overeas).
May stay 5-10 nights per year pending annual leave of course and study leave. May not be all in the big cities as I may be travelling to the smaller towns etc. Main determinant is price. I tend to use hotel search engines.
Just want a nice location, tidy, modern hotel etc .. won't use room service, restaurants, pool or gym etc ..
I have a trip coming up and b/c I do photography. The best hotel in Kuala Lumpur appears to be the Traders which is a Shagri-la partner, with its Twin Tower facing rooms plus it's Skybar which can see that also. But ... then that kinda restricts me to the Shangri-la program. I could do other hotels but just means I need to do less.