Originally Posted by
Happy
I have seen the past Winter Sale rates were cancellable up to 3 days before arrival. in fact I used it at Hilton Capital Grand at Abu Dhabi in January - canceled an award booking at 30K and rebooked a $99 room about 5 days before arrival.
So it is not a fully flexible rate but with very small difference.
In any case at the current scheme, the room would cost 20K pts if it works.
Regardless whether the point level would be repriced or not, I think everyone should always check what are the cash rates versus the point level once the travel plan is very much fixed and very close in.
I also dont believe Honors would make award bookings non-refundable because that is NOT an industry standard. Not to say Honors would never go that route but the chance of it to go that direction is relatively small.
It always pay to check your cancelable bookings on hotels and rental cars.
Yes it's clear from looking online and I'm sure Lauren also said somewhere that points per night are calculated using the HH discount flexible booking so any sale price (which is usually a discount from the flexible or HH discount flexible booking price) is not going to affect the points per night rate on awards regardless of how flexible the sale rate is as that is not the rate that is used to calculate the rewards night cost.
I also cannot see rewards nights going to non cancel at this time. But it wouldn't surprise me if things were tightened up at some point in the future to something like the restrictions on your sale rate that you mention.