Originally Posted by MEM FA
Online Reservation Guarantee
By securing your online reservation with a credit card, you are eligible for our Reservations Guarantee. If your reservation cannot be honored, the host hotel will provide a room at, and transportation to, another convenient and comparable hotel, and pay for telephone calls to notify family of the lodging change. The host hotel will also pay the full cost of the first night's lodging rate, plus tax. Any advance deposit will be refunded.
I just notice they only really guarantees the first night, not the entire stay. Maybe I am reading it too closely, but it looks like I won't be going afterall.
Don't forget, accomodation on Phuket can be ridiculously cheap. I've stayed there for 6 USD per night (granted, it didn't even come close to the Holiday Inn), but there are plenty of perfectly good accomodations available for about $20 per night. I would go anyway and hope for the best.