Originally Posted by
littlesheep
To respond to some questions:
I always have these lengths of stay - a month to three months. I always get points and status. You can imagine that at these lengths of stay I would not want to drop the matter.
The problem, it turned out after many hours on the phone with Hilton Honors and then the hotel, was that the manager had initially submitted this stay with the wrong code, whatever that means. The hotel then proceeded to correct this...and correct this...and correct this...while I battled and battled with people at HHonors who's never heard of me before despite the repeated conversations. The hotel kept sending them faxes and calling and HHonors kept not knowing anything about this.
I mean, you'd be infuriated with any matter if this was the response...any consumer complaint.
The company is not an issue, I won't go into why, so as to keep a bit of privacy here. I'm not an employee.
Point is, I am completely in the right here. The hotel did something wrong, made a mistake, then worked very hard to correct it. HHonors acts like I'm a new and surprising entity every time I call, and always answers with these obtuse and obnoxious bureaucratic answers.
Think of every movie about bureaucracy you can - nothing specific, but John Cleese could do this movie - and that's HHonors.
I did e-mail a higher up yesterday - we'll see...
I see...
There was once when a stay did not post correctly.
(Come to think of it, I had pretty few issues so I guess I am fortunate

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Anyway, I went to the hotel who went to HHonors to correct the mistake.
Not sure who made the mistake but with the Hotel telling HHonors what needs to be done, it sure made the correction simple.
I have realised that for most issues, going through the property to have it fix is easier then going to the corporate. Exception would be when the property ignores me or started acting roguish then will I direct my efforts to corporate.