Originally Posted by
NightFury1
I would be upset if I paid $800 for this suite, let alone a basic room. Maybe I’d pay $600 for the suite.
But you didn't pay $800 for that suite. That's just an arbitrary rate that you saw at an arbitrary time. You say here you'd pay $600, but as I already noted, the bay view suite can be booked for under $600/night all-in and I've frequently done that. In fact on FHR I'm seeing ~$550/night all-in for dates during a future trip I'm planning in September - without any promotion - which means the HH member rate should be lower and any advance purchase rates should be even lower than that.
When assessing value, the comparison has to be in a comparable context - similar properties in the same city over the same dates. Other luxury properties like the Palace or Aman might blow the Conrad out of the water, but they're also far more expensive (I often stay at the Palace and as I've noted elsewhere, a base room at the Palace is typically more expensive than even the king bayview suite at the Conrad).
Originally Posted by
NightFury1
So to answer your question, Andaz Tokyo is just as big and will upgrade you on award stays and it’s much newer. Idk if you’ve been to the Andaz, but their city room is quite new compared to the Conrad and very sleek. Their bath trumps our suite’s.
I'll never stay at Andaz Tokyo again as the
service is terrible. As I've posted in this thread, service at Conrad is exemplary in comparison. Even price no object I'd stay at the Conrad Tokyo in a king bay view suite over the Andaz Tokyo base suite, and the Andaz is asking an embarrassing 145,000¥/night for it over the same dates I mentioned above that the Conrad is asking $550.
As also noted in the Andaz Tokyo thread, you're much more likely to get an upgrade / be treated well if you're a social media influencer than you are as a Glob - all the more reason to avoid that property like the plague.