New Room Search Engine?
Please forgive me if this has already been posted - I did a search and did not find anything pertaining to this.
I know that Hilton Honors has revamped their website but tonight I discovered what may be a new search engine/platform as well. On the top left was an opportunity to switch back to the old one but now it does not show up after conducting several searches.
The results now show hotels in a different format and includes both the price in dollars and points. If I chose a 4+ night stay it also seemed to show a lower point total for those awards (i.e. 21,250 per night as opposed to 25,000 per night).
Overall, it seems neat but there are bugs. Reward rooms for some properties seem to be limited - for example, a Homewood Suites in Syracuse only showed award availability for a King 1 bedroom smoking (even more interesting is that the hotel claims to be 100% non-smoking). It also seems that if the property does not have reward rooms available that it simply does not show up in the results (this happened during a search for a room in Denver).
Has anyone else noticed this development? Or am I just way behind?
Most importantly, it took me exactly one attempt to successfully log-in. I don't remember the last time that happened. If that is fixed, I will really rejoice.