FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Switch from paid rate to payment w/ points?
Old Mar 10, 2011 | 5:52 pm
  #8  
BigLar
FlyerTalk Evangelist
20 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Freeload Univ. Where are you sitting?
Posts: 14,818
Originally Posted by TRAVELBABE
Just wanted to let you know that I called the Reservation line & asked about booking a reservation & then switching it over to a points reservation once the booking window opened. The agent said they may have to cancel the original reservation & rebook with points, but that this was not a problem at all. I asked her if this was "above board," and she again reiterated that it was perfectly acceptable.
That's good news ... I think.

What we'd really like to know is that the room you book (assuming it would have been available for points) will definitely be made available to you when you wish to redeem an award. From what I see, the CSR told you that you could book a room, and then cancel it when you book an award if there is availabilty for the award. This is something anyone could have done on their own.

But if it's really the way we'd all hope it could be, you may have opened up a complete new avenue for the rest of us. ^
BigLar is offline