Originally Posted by
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It's a paid business class ticket. Full fare. When partner learned there was an overnight connection, which I hadn't realized when I made the reservation, he wanted to cancel the return. He said he'd consider keeping the return if he didn't have to pay for the hotel.
I'm actually in a remote corner of the world (bhutan) and flyertalk pages are taking a long time to render (30+ min) which is why I didn't do a search for the hotel. Was simply taking too long.
It is a bit in grey area. Even if your partner takes OZ356 (01:30 dep) and connect to OZ214 (16:30 dep), it is still 8+ hours connection time, in which case your partner is eligible for a room.
I would call OZ and argue the point above and get a room. I wasn't pointing at you about my remark about searching, it's just lately there have been too many questions about this kind of situations. Fully understandable in your situation though ^