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Old Nov 2, 2013 | 8:28 am
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Originally Posted by scubaccr
68 x 95% = 64.6 , so 65 rooms of 68 (just 3 empty) in a small hotel needed to trigger IHG paying full rate. Maybe it will work out for Indigo, but aas Award nights are Flex, some bookings may be speculative and cancelled at last minute, causing occupancy to fall beloe 95%.
That's one of the situation where it makes perfect sense for the hotel to heavily overbook and send people elsewhere...

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