Originally Posted by
chrism20
With the old system the hotels were allowed to pick and choose if/when they activated availability on P&C nights so unfortunately in the eyes of Hilton they have done nothing wrong.
With the announcement of the changes they have obviously looked at it and seen that they are going to make more from the changes and excercised their right to not offer P&C at that time.
From a business point of view I can't say I blame them. From a customer perspective it's pants but in terms of what they have to do as per franchise contract they have done nothing wrong.
Exactly. The old version was a backdoor way of selling discounted rooms without seeming to. Since the new version is so transparent as to the underlying value of Honors points, they would not want to continue to use P & C for that purpose. I expect Priceline and Hotwire to soon get greater room inventory from Hilton-branded properties.