Originally Posted by
jimmyrules712
I'm curious to here what you guys think of this.
Earlier this year I booked 6 nights at Moorea on points in standard garden room for July 2017. Around 2 months ago I was contacted by them offering room upgrades with the most expensive upgrade option being the Panoramic Overwater Bungalow. I ended up paying 20,000 XPF per night to get one. I even request one of the rooms at the end of the dock and they said they'd note the request on my reservation.
Fast forward to today and I got another email from them offering upgrades again...now they're trying to sell me a "Premium Panoramic Overwater Bungalow" for an ADDITIONAL 20,000 XPF per night on top of the 20,000 I already paid. I was confused because the hotel website does not show a "Premium Panoramic Overwater Bungalow" room type. I did some googling and found
this site which has
this page which says that started April 1st 2017 the rooms at the end of the dock will be designated as these "premium" rooms.
So I guess the rooms I thought I was paying for just got reclassified to something twice as expensive? Think I should try to complain about this?
Just made a reservation with Gold status, and inquired about upgrades as well, and got the following price quotes:
Deluxe Garden bungalow - 6 500 XPF
Lagoon Bungalow - 11 000 XPF
Overwater Bungalow - 14 500 XPF
Panoramic Overwater Bungalow - 35 000 XPF
Premium Panoramic Overwater Bungalow - 52 000 XPF
Garden Pool Suite - 47 000 XPF
So yes, they have a new category of "Premium" Panoramic Overwater Bungalows. These prices also seem ridiculous and way more than what they were charging for upgrades before. I wonder if I can negotiate the "standard" panoramic overwater down to around 20,000 xpf which is what I believe others have paid in the past...