Hilton HHonors - $150 Rate Change

I'm staying in New York for three nights - booked last week. I now see, two nights into my stay, that I can book the same room type in the hotel tomorrow for $150 less than the rate I'm paying. I plan to check out tomorrow and re-check in. Does anyone know whether the hotel will make me move rooms. Also, how come the rate did not change during my current stay?

Thanks for any advice.

I'm staying in New York for three nights - booked last week. I now see, two nights into my stay, that I can book the same room type in the hotel tomorrow for $150 less than the rate I'm paying. I plan to check out tomorrow and re-check in. Does anyone know whether the hotel will make me move rooms. Also, how come the rate did not change during my current stay?

Thanks for any advice.

Isn't there a penalty for early check-out? Depending on how much the penalty is it may mitigate your cost savings.

Isn't there a penalty for early check-out? Depending on how much the penalty is it may mitigate your cost savings.

No penalty. They let me check out. The original rate was a fully flexible one.

Interestingly room rates tonight for one night are $325. For tonight and tomorrow night $325. For tomorrow night only $175.

Interestingly room rates tonight for one night are $325. For tonight and tomorrow night $325. For tomorrow night only $175.

This is a very common practice. I almost always book all nights individually (mostly because I never know my plans) but also because each night is charged at that rate rather than getting charged the highest nightly rate X number of nights.

Of course occasionally this works the other way around where it is to your advantage to book a longer stay. From my experience this sometimes kicks in a 6 day discount or some other odd pricing.

IMHO, the effort is worth the savings. After all this is FT :D

I find cheaper pricing on weekends by booking multiple nights. I've tried to price a Sunday night by itself and it's $129 a night, but if I book Sat and Sun, it's $99 a night. Obviously I'm not booking these in NYC, though. :)

yeah, I always check to see if a split stay gets me cheaper rates, somestimes yes, most of the time no. It is tedious, but you save quite a bit if you check.

I've done the same, even during the week. Often Thursdays are get away days and can knock off some bucks over a Wed night rate.

If you arrive at the front desk holding two separate reservations, the hotel staff should be able to "join" the reservations so that you don't have to go through the hassle of checking out-then back in. This assumes that the two reservations are for (essentially) the same room type. This way, they can create your room keys for the entire length of your stay.

....it's $99 a night. Obviously I'm not booking these in NYC, though. :)

Not unless you're booking by the hour :rolleyes:

Just canceled a res at the SFO FD hotel and rebooked it at the same Hilton Web site for $300 less for a 5 day stay. I always recheck rates as I get closer to my stay dates as I often see lower rates than when I initially booked.
It's Pita but obviously worth it.:(

Well I changed to the cheaper rate without a problem - and kept my room. It's not impressive that Hilton has the ability via the website to report a rate change but doesn't bother to do so. The idea of the cheapest rates over the web is rather misleading. In the end I opted for a rate which gave me a $50 shopping voucher for $20 more. However, the same rate was available for a five day booking - costing $100 - but you still only got one vocuher!

bmifly:confused:

hotel rooms especially in major cities or in high demand areas change almost as much as gas prices lately. it kind of like russian rullette. the eariler out you book you get cheaper the closer is higher priced. sometimes 24 hours before if the rooms did not fill they drop the price but you run the risk of losing your chances of getting a room.