Originally Posted by
mctrees02
My travels this year are going to have me in more Kimpton cities, so I status matched to IC. On my first two stays (Seattle & Dallas) everything was perfect. For my upcoming stay in LA (at the Hotel Wilshire), I received an email offering me the opportunity to reserve a paid upgrade (if available) at check-in.
Has anybody else seen this before? I'm assuming that it is an additional revenue mechanism that they have in place. However, I'm not sure why I would want to pay to possibly upgrade when IC status already affords me the chance to be upgraded. Am I missing something here? Thanks!
I received an email like that for one of my stays last year. I did not pay for an upgrade, and the only "upgrade" I received was that we were on the top floor, and needed to use our key to get to the rooms portion, as they had a restaurant up there too. The room was tiny, and by the time we left, I wished I'd paid for an upgrade.
