Originally Posted by psyflyer
Thanks for this ^ , i called and both the Western Cape and the Arabella in CPT (Staying at both properties) are not part of the group of hotels attached to this promo...
Actually, I'm pretty sure both hotels still do offer rooms under the SPG50 promotion sometimes. I stayed at the Cape Town Arabella Grand Hotel a couple years back on this rate and saved quite a bit. However, it depends on the demand -- if you're staying during a peak period (e.g., November for Hermanus - when the whales come through), the hotel will usually have few or even no rooms available at that rate.
Originally Posted by goodjls
I have to say that I have tried for over 2 year (maybe 10 different times total) to use the SPG50 offer and the rate is always higher than the best rate at the time. It seems that the 'rack' rate is so inflated that it is never worthwhile to use the coupon. I just throw them out now.
Sometimes this is true, particularly in the United States (although I've had luck with SPG50s in the United States as well). Outside the US, where the number of promotions seems fewer, the SPG50s seem to be more useful. If you go to the Starwood forum here on
FlyerTalk and do a search, you'll find lots of threads commenting on the good deals they found.
So, if you're going to "throw them out," you can throw them in my direction.
Or maybe better yet, offer them on Coupon Connection for those folks who find them to be useful.