Hilton HHonors - New Hotel: Hampton by Hilton York (UK) - Reward nights 64,961 points per night

Just found this new Hampton by Hilton listed for York, England. Showing that it will open on Nov 18 2012.

The bad sign is this hotel is already showing they are going to pull some fast ones on HH members. When looking to book a reward stay every standard room has "PREMIUM ROOM REWARD" for every date I checked. It is listed as a Cat 3 yet I find standard rooms at 64,961 points per night. (Dec 7 for example) Can not find a date in Nov or Dec at the standard Cat 3 point rate.

http://hamptoninn3.hilton.com/en/hotels/united-kingdom/hampton-by-hilton-york-QQYTGHX/index.html

It could be that things will change when it's actually open.

You'll have seen points rates for certain dates as low as 28,571 when you were searching, as well as cash (advance purchase) rates as cheap as £67.50 a night.

I have no idea what accommodation rates are normally like in York, but it doesn't seem so bad.

P.S. There's always the Hilton York that's only 50,000 points on the night of the 7th December.

Chris

It could be that things will change when it's actually open.

You'll have seen points rates for certain dates as low as 28,571 when you were searching, as well as cash (advance purchase) rates as cheap as £67.50 a night.

I have no idea what accommodation rates are normally like in York, but it doesn't seem so bad.

P.S. There's always the Hilton York that's only 50,000 points on the night of the 7th December.

Chris

I guess my point was not clear, these are standard room that this hotel is listing as Premium rooms, it is a Hampton Inn. This should not be happening, just one more flaw in the Hilton Honors program allowing hotels to set the crazy point rates for Premium rooms in this case calling standard rooms Premium. The Hilton York is a rip off at 50K per night. It is a typical old and dated Hilton in the UK outside London.

Fair comment, but they may well still change these when the hotel opens in 3 months time.

Chris