Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Amsterdam, Asia, UK
Programs: IHG RA (Spire), HH Diamond, MR Platinum, SQ Gold, KLM Gold, BAEC Gold
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Most hotels force minimum nights bookings on premium dates.
Chinese New Year is not just that 1x night for fireworks but the whole 7-9 day week. If ICHK allowed fireworks night rooms to be booked as 1night only duratoion, then too many rooms would get booked as such 1nighters , and ICHK would not get income from other non fireworks nights of a stay of 3/4/5/6/7 nights at the premium CNY week rates as the guest willing to buy 7nighter could not, and ICHK would lose 6nights premium rate income.
When I stayed ICHK couple of years ago for CNY, booking early10months out, the minimum stay was a)4nights b)flex/corp/adr rates were all non-canceable that 7day period.