Originally Posted by
aroundtheworld76
Planning on a last minute three night trip to LIR using Bonvoy points 01/19-01/22. Planet Hollywood is my choice because the other half likes All-Inclusives. 180K points for the three nights, junior suite, garden view. Until you click through to book, then the availability disappears and a message pops up saying: "Sorry, there are currently no rooms available. Please try your search again." This happened yesterday morning, so I called Marriott and the agent had the same thing happen. She put me on hold and eventually came back and said she had "checked with someone else and there's no availability." Ok, it happens. I checked a couple of times yesterday afternoon and it was indeed only showing cash rates available. This morning, the points rate is showing again with the same "no rooms available" message when you click through..... Technical glitch or attempt to bait and switch folks into paying cash rates? They seem to have plenty of rooms open for the desired dates, third party sites like Hotwire are offering them. Either way it's annoying.
Now I have to decide if I want to book a non MR all-inclusive or use points for something that isn't all inclusive like El Mangroove or Punta Islita.
We absolutely love Punta Islita.