What on Earth is a "distinctive award??"
Jul 11, 2011, 10:25 am
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What on Earth is a "distinctive award??"
I was looking for availability for the new (old) Hilton Bodrum resort in Turkey, not onl;y does it show no availability for any redemption rooms for anytime in the future whatsoever, but its category is "DISTINCTIVE REWARDS".
Anyone have an idea what they are playing at?
Anyone have an idea what they are playing at?
Jul 11, 2011, 10:25 pm
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Jul 11, 2011, 10:40 pm
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"Honors Reward Category" 10
"Currency" TRY
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Jul 11, 2011, 11:00 pm
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Ahhh, I see. I looked at some of the other All Inclusive resorts as well. The ones in Egypt also list "Distinctive Rewards" and Category 10.
Jul 13, 2011, 5:55 pm
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Sure you can book these on points.
I'm sure they will find the "fat-finger" that programmed this soon and correct it.
Apr 13, 2012, 3:58 pm
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Bentley London is now Distinctive rewards, is this part of award change? Anyone know how many pts this is?
Apr 13, 2012, 4:18 pm
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Interesting. Certainly isn't an all inclusive as far as I can tell. Another HHonors devaluation or just a mistake from the crack web team at Hilton?
Apr 15, 2012, 12:50 pm
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Bentley used to be a W=A and was changed into a Hilton last year. It had a brief stay at cat 7. I'm guessing it's just another bad excuse to charge more points, although doing a flexible search for several months ahead I saw standard rooms at 50K throughout (except the Olympics when there was nothing going). Plenty of better choices in London.