Originally Posted by
graupel22
Book it with the extra night - just not on a prepaid rate, and call reservations and tell them your travel plans changed and you need to remove the last night, and - in the past, that's worked for me.
This logic can also be applied if you needed to stay one night on Thursday but the rate was high but if you included a friday night stay then the rate drops. So you book check in then tell them you need to cancel the second night and get the lower rate.
These two night minimums are common. Near where I live in Seattle across the Cascades there is a rather new SpringHill that opened in Wenatchee which is a popular weekend getaway trip by travelers because besides itself being the home of Washignton apple farms its a short drive from Leaveneworth, Lake Chelan, and the gorge aphitheater.
Someone just doing Saturday they will lose even more customers because many travelers dont want to have to flip hotels so they will just book their two nights elsewhere.
I do get frustrated with this...i wish they should have with this some rule that say within 48-72 hrs of your travel time this restriction is lifted.
This is in part of why Marriott changes that rule of combining free certs and paid stays together because it would frustrate customers with the work they would have to do to combine the paid night plus cert for one of these min 2 night stay (on weekends) hotels.