Originally Posted by
Biggie Fries
I had three rooms booked for an early January stay and one room booked for a late January stay.
Today the offers came out for January -- at least mine did -- and I wanted to take advantage of (a) the lower room rate and (b) the resort credit.
In an ideal world, I would have just re-booked these on-line and canceled the old ones on-line. The Mlife website being what it is, I can barely and rarely find existing reservations, much less cancel them. (Any tips here?)
So I called in to re-book. Always an adventure, calling into Mlife ....
I gave the CSA the four reservation numbers, my Mlife number, and the offer code. He said that only one of the reservations could get the resort credit. I said -- thinking he was referring to the early January three-room reservation set that, okay, them's must be the rules -- "fine," but surely all of the rooms could be re-booked at the lower room rate under the offer code. After a long siege on hold, the CSA came back to confirm that I could get the better room rate offered under the offer code, but only one resort credit among the four bookings.
Say what? The fourth booking was for a stay 3-4 weeks after the first one. Does this mean we can only use the offer code one time per quarter? We went around and around on this and he held firm.
If it's true, it's true, and that's life ... er, Mlife. If it's not, someone please tell me how to cancel out that fourth reservation on line so I can get the credit on the second stay, without so much time on the phone!
TIA
Most offers have fine print saying that you can only use them multiple times subject to your play during the previous times using them.
In other words, you can show up once and use your offer without playing, but they will not let you get away with it a 2nd time. On the other hand, if you play at your normal level (that got you the offer in the first place) you should have no problems using it multiple times.
If you plan on playing, I'd just leave things with only the first offer having resort credit. After your stay (when you are done playing, before you check out) talk to a host (the on-call host is fine) and ask if he can apply the same offer to your next stay.
Basically, they are not going to let someone give them a little bit of play, get an offer, and then keep coming back over and over again with free/cheap rooms and free food and drinks without playing. If they allowed this it would be too easy to abuse (and, trust me, many people would abuse it). There are professionals who make a living off of offers like this (mostly ones that include freeeplay)