Originally Posted by
cblaisd
Trying to hoard my money until the last minute, but wondering if the Advance Purchase option (which the T&Cs say must be done at least 7 days in advance) ever in fact disappears from the reservation options more days in advance than that.
I wouldn't be surprised if it goes away when a hotel gets "close" (whatever that may mean) to being sold out. I doubt that when there's only one room left there's still Advance Purchase options. And, if so, since it's theoretically possible for a hotel to get close to sold out at any time, it would mean that Advance Purchase could disappear at any time.
And I don't have any idea what "close" could be in this case. It could be something
far from close (say, just
any particular percentage of rooms already booked) for all I know. I seem to recall in
some hotel chain (but don't remember which one) that
some discount rate (again, I don't remember which one) was only available before the bookings went above
something like 65% capacity.
(This would be analogous to "fare buckets" at airlines, where once a "bucket" of seats at a particular fare sells out, that fare automatically stops being available. But unlike at airlines, there no way to check if it's Y7 H5 Q3 rooms remaining at hotels, AFAIK!)