Originally Posted by
LongLiveSPG
To the point about getting a much better price using a nonrefundable rate, I find that there is often very little difference in price and, when the cancellation occurs last minute, even a refundable rate typically becomes nonrefundable. I wonder: Does the hotel treat a last minute cancellation of a rate that WAS refundable differently from one that was originally nonrefundable
Much of the time if you cancel a flexible rate after the cancellation deadline or are a no show, you’ll just be dinged for the first night’s room rate, whereas with a nonrefundable rate, you end up losing the value of the entire stay