<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">... Basically, as I said in another thread, it is my belief that the Premium ranking was not an error. Instead, I think that the property's owner thought that he/she would get more money from selling empty rooms on Priceline or other opaque channels than from Hilton's reimbursement, ....[/B]</font>
It's none of my business, I suppose... but what does a property owner end up getting from Hilton for a normal points stay? As a Diamond, I know that sometimes the diamond desk will get you into a place on points but actually end up paying the property as if they were walking in.. paying the rack rate or something close to it, I guess. We had that experience when staying in Anchorage, Alaska over the 4th of July, one year. A nice benefit, to be sure.