Originally Posted by
Heal
Ah,
Apologies, I'm new here. I'm on Gold at the moment, and after the 3 days will be done with the Plat challenge. I've already purchased breakfast for the day for myself and my SO, and my parents will join us then in the main area. (it'll be a friday morning, so hopefully not so chaotic?)
While i do drink, its more to provide a space to relax with my parents. The differential between the lounge and non lounge access was around MYR300, so I was wondering if I enquired for on the spot lounge upgrades, would it be cheaper? I'm probably intending to ask for lounge for just one night due to that.
Not sure how they treat Diamonds here. But worth reminding that IC's tend to only give full recognition to Ambassador "paid" status.
This was our first IHG stay of 2023. We are now just over 50 nights in IHG - mostly in IC's. In retrospect this was our best value quality stay.
We are Diamond Ambassador with Diamond off full 70 nights in 2022 mostly in IC's.
To your questions;
The lounge is very pleasant and a lovely calm spacious area to spend time with guests. But they will likely charge an extra fee beyond you and any single person registered to your room.
The lounge breakfast is OK for one maybe two nights. But beyond that it may feel limited and repetitive.
MYR 300 from basic room to club room was pretty adjacent to what we paid in January. No idea what the walk in upgrade price is to Club.
We will likely stay again Dec/Jan. With a lounge pass this hotel rates as a relative bargain - but .....only covers the cost of a taxi from the airport which is SO far away!