Originally Posted by
Colton
Hey everyone,
I’m planning to book a 5-6-night stay using points and the 5th Night Free bonus. I’d also love to use my Free Night Certificate to try to make it 6 nights total.
I checked the availability for my preferred dates, but it seems there are no 5-6 consecutive nights with standard room point redemption (150,000 points per night).
Is this a temporary issue on the booking site, and should I check again later? How often do 5-night windows open up with standard point redemption at this resort?
I’m also considering other Hilton resorts, such as the new Huvafen Fushi Maldives or going back to the Conrad Rangali Maldives, which we really enjoyed. That said, the Waldorf Astoria Ithaafushi bungalows look incredible as well.
Thank you for your help!
Under the booking with points section of the wiki:
This hotel is extremely popular. Rooms are released to be booked with points about 1 year in advance. It seems to be a partially manual process so it's not an exact science. After being released those rooms get booked within a matter of minutes. If you have specific dates you want you need to book them one at a time a year in advance, or risk booking last minute. Yes that makes it hard to use the 5th night free. You can book 5 individual nights and cancel them all to rebook getting the 5th night free, but there's only about a 50% chance the rooms go back into inventory so it's risky. There is no secret, just check Hilton.com all the time. If you don't want to do that, someone else will and they'll get the rooms.
If you haven't read through the wiki you definitely should. lots of useful info