Originally Posted by
Darksun
The "No Blackout Date" policy is not really a thing, given that Marriott updated their policy to exclude Marriott properties and has no interest in enforcing it at SPG properties. The St Regis Maldives is getting around the policy by putting the "standard room" only in a package. You'll notice if you try to book the Garden Villa for the dates where you can't make points bookings, the room is only available with an "Oceanfront Breakfast Rate". That's not a standard price so it's not available for points booking. If you choose to look at cash prices for days that you can make points bookings, you'll see that the Garden Villa is available under the "Member Rate" without breakfast. That is how this property is choosing to black out dates.
I reached out to them about this before and they straight up lied and said no Garden Villas were available, when I could see them for sale with the Oceanfront Breakfast Rate.
That's not the only thing this property lies about. Whoever 'owns' the hardware at this property must have debt collectors knocking on his door in the middle of the night.....
Originally Posted by
TerryK
Common way for properties to get around no blackout dates. Nevertheless, it can be justified in this case as properties can choose to sell rooms with additional amenities during peak season.
Hmmm.....sounds like an excuse that properties can use to disadvantage, aka
screw, guests. Maybe a rephrase to "properties who want to, can, under the guise of
choosing to sell rooms with additional amenities during peak season, black out dates as they see fit." Excuse my ignorance but I don't see how that is justifiable when T&C says 'no blackout dates' (as has been implied by [MENTION=821736]Darksun[/MENTION]), especially since they know there isn't anyone enforcing the rule.
Originally Posted by
rp88
Originally Posted by
sydneyflyer12
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but the StR brand was integrated into the Marriott reservation system a couple weeks ago and award availability (and availability in general) seems to now be loaded in a week at a time (1 year minus two weeks on Saturday night around midnight ET) rather than day by day as it seemed to be previously.
Amazing info. Thanks! Can we get this on the wiki/sticky at the top of the thread?
Done.