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Old May 11, 2023 | 8:45 am
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Originally Posted by LovePrunes
There are a lot of hotels on BAAH that give 0, so you're just booking a hotel and nothing else. Are you saying these hotels u wanted are no longer listed at all on BAAH, either? Gone from RM AND BAAH? Are they on booking.com? Anything common among the properties, like are they from one chain? All inclusive? Care to tell us which ones they were so we can look too?
Yes, sorry I was not clear about that. All but one of these properties I've not ever seen offered at BAAH earning AA miles. The miles earning options are only on RM. They are usually listed on BAAH (although not earning miles) and booking.com. The properties are on my short list. I've been check them specifically fairly frequently since AA's loyalty program changed. So am familiar with how they normally display.

They were still available on RM, in the sense that searches returned 'property not available for dates'. I checked quite a few random dates throughout the summer however and cross compared to direct booking availability. They were no longer available for any dates. Only two resorts on Turks and Caicos are affiliated. The others are all independent properties.

The only common denominator - and I hesitated to state this because it's not an absolute but pretty darn close - is that probably 98% of the time, all but one of these properties are ONLY offered as "Reserve Now, Pay Later" properties. There's never an option offered to pay at time of booking (which I would greatly prefer to do).

I just cleared my DNS cache and will check again at lunch. Hopefully it was just a batch update or something this morning and the properties will reappear on RM. In the meantime, I don't mind sharing the properties. Sometimes I do wonder to what extent cookies and search patterns come into what any individual sees and more eyes are always better.

1. Grace Bay Club (Turks and Caicos)
2. Point Grace (Turks and Caicos)
3. Carlisle Bay Hotel (Antigua)
4. Belmond Cap Juluca (Anguilla)
5. Malliouhana (Anguilla)
6. Coral Reef Club (Barbados)
7. Bequia Beach Hotel (Bequia) - note - (this hotel is only one from this batch that is sometimes offered by BAAH earning miles and sometimes offered with pre-pay options on RM also. The others I've only seen offered with miles on RM and almost exclusively as "Reserve Now, Pay Later" only.)
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