Originally Posted by XFed2001
When the website and the reservations operator says that there are no vacancies for a particular date, other than checking often prior to the desired date, is there anything else I can do? As a Silver I don't have much clout but it seems to me that 3-4 days before that particular date, Hilton should be willing to relent and release an as yet unsold room. Am I way off base? An unsold room is revenue forever lost, isn't it?
Sometimes travel agents (Travelocity, Orbitz, etc) may have prebought rooms. So I'd check all the normal online agents and see if they show rooms available.