Originally Posted by
FrankC6
I am more concerned with the fact that the rates listed on the main SPG Hot Escapes websites are not bookable at all for quite a few properties I have looked at. Instead a rate of 10 euro or 20 euro more per night is offered as the Hot Escape Members Only rate, according to Starwood due to 'limited availability'. At least with Beat The Timer it was possible to get the advertised rate. With SPG Hot Escapes it seems, at least for the hotels I'm interested in, completely impossible to book the advertised rates...
A 'feature' of hot escapes is that the 'spg member rate' is 'from', and the calendar also displays availability at higher rates.
I looked at The Westin Dragonara Resort, Malta, for an example of this. The SPG Member rate is USD 131, yet the calendar displays availability at higher rates for every date except one, Jan 1 (which is hidden out of sight around the corner of the calendar), which is indeed USD 131.
if you scrutinise the calendar for the properties you are looking at, do you find one date at the advertised spg member rate ?