Originally Posted by
Schnit
Sure that would be amazingly consumer friendly, but Hilton cares about the bottom line and keeping the franchises happy. They want you to eat there 3 times during a 3 night stay, so there is more overage and more money.
I have a 5 night stay at a Marriott in CT next month that I am paying 80,000 points for. Would be nice if they would just use my 85k FNC for it, but they dont for the same reason
You can rack up as many overages as you or they want - have $200 dinners and $50 breakfasts and drink to your heart's content in the bars...you'd just get your $15 or $25 or whatever amount times the number of nights you stayed. Easy. And it would be your choice/fault if you didn't use it all.
And your Marriott analogy makes no sense - it is an 85K free NIGHT certificate. Of course they wouldn't use it for 5 nights (aren't you getting the 5th night free?) or does Marriott not do that.