Originally Posted by
Freetotravel
This is really helpful - thank you. It was what I had thought; I'm pretty sure I tried it and couldn't get additional rooms to appear.
There are no guarantees but IME if other rooms will show up its over the course of "hours" not "minutes" partially due to the influences of that mentioned up thread so the timing of those events will influence when rooms may enter the pool of availability. Sometimes none of those events happen and thus the list of rooms just doesn't change.
Originally Posted by
Freetotravel
I think the consistent advice on this forum has been to accept a specific room at OLCI IF it is a room I want and especially if an upgrade has been awarded. If an upgrade hasn't yet been awarded or if I don't like the rooms available then better to choose a room at the front desk. If it is a lower brand hotel and the hotel is full then I would probably choose a room at OLCI anyway.
I may be overly IDGAS about upgrades but if there's a room available that I find acceptable I will grab it for OLCI, upgrade or no. I have been upgraded after OLCI, I have been not upgraded after OLCI but I'd rather grab a room I like when it's available than risk getting the first floor next to the ice machine just because of the possibility of maybe missing out on an upgrade but to each their own.
Originally Posted by
Freetotravel
I definitely recall a thread some time back saying don't take a room you definitely do not want as sometimes the front desk won't change it if I "chose" that room already.
Yes, but I also don't completely understand why someone would explicitly pick a room they didn't want during OLCI -- I mean if I'm shopping I don't just grab something I hate off the shelf for the sake of making a selection -- but this may be more of a "I don't understand people" thing than a Hilton-specific thing.