Further, I have at least one of my rates changed from a teamUSA rate to a Hilton Honors discount rate adding a large sum to a 10 night stay. Good luck with that one too!

Hilton IT strikes again!

Anything I wanted, I booked yesterday. I know better than to wait and hope an "enhancement" actually works in our favor.

Unless you want to risk your HH account being closed, you had better pay it if it doesn't get fixed, and dispute it afterwards.

I'm glad that I am not checking in or out of a Hilton today.

Cash+points rate doubled for a Hilton Dublin Airport, Ireland stay in June.

12,000 points + 43 Euro
Equivalent today is 12,000 Euro + 85 Euro.
Up to total of 30,000 points + 0 Euro (was always 30,000 points before the change too)

The reservation is 3 months away.

Most of my 100% point stays I've checked are now equal or more than the original cap.

One stay (Doubletree NCL Airport) is lower (17,000 after the change vs. 20,000 points before the chase; mid-April stay).

Another data point:-

3 night reservation made last week using cash + pts - 60000 + $255

Same reservation today - 60000 + $413 (or 96000 + $254)

Room rate is the same.

Crazier and crazier
 

Looking at Sydney Hilton in very early January. It has reduced to 45,000 points which is the lowest I have seen in recent times. However, the points rate is said to be non-cancellable!

Yeah! Let's throw the whole company and program under the bus 6 minutes into their new IT rollout! Light the torches! Rabble! :rolleyes:

"While hotels will no longer be in reward categories, the price of a standard hotel room will not exceed the maximum amount of Points that a hotel cost previously."

bs

imagine my shock.

End of december and early january I have noticed last year you could not cancel.
I have booked a few sunday nights for 27 000 refunable rate. Interesting to see if I will receive a decent upgrade paying such a small amount though.

I don't think I have done that. I have drawn attention to examples which do not appear to me to make a lot of sense. YMMV.

Hilton Prague
Was 30K until end of May.

Now it is 47K on this dates ((

27K is a very decent rate at this hotel which would not have been seen for many years.

Value of points dropped by a factor of two and a half
 

Cash+points rate more than doubled for a one-week stay in April.

Existing reservation: 168,000 points + USD$ 1,050
Equivalent today: 411,000 points + USD$ 1,050

The slider ranges from a maximum of 721,000 points to a maximum of USD$ 2,427.25. Using the slider, the value per point today is USD$ 0.0034 (0.34 cents per point). With my existing reservation, the value per point was USD$ 0.0082 (0.82 cents per point). The old rate was 2.4 times more cents per point than the new rate (okay, not quite a factor of two and a half).

(note that the cash room rate per night has not changed, and this is for the same room type already reserved).