Hilton Waikiki Beach {US-HI}
Oct 3, 2018, 11:35 am
#211
Join Date: May 2012
Location: YXE
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Posts: 222
Well - they have finally added a resort fee...$30USD a night. I booked a few nights in December about a month ago and there was no fee. Checked today and the new fee was added for future reservations. Includes, internet access, movies, telephone calls, water and a bunch of coupons. While I like the hotel and location - an additional $30 a night for really no added benefits for a diamond member means that I'll move my future business elsewhere.
Oct 3, 2018, 1:29 pm
#212
Join Date: Sep 2010
Programs: Hilton Honors Lifetime Diamond, Delta
Posts: 23
Well - they have finally added a resort fee...$30USD a night. I booked a few nights in December about a month ago and there was no fee. Checked today and the new fee was added for future reservations. Includes, internet access, movies, telephone calls, water and a bunch of coupons. While I like the hotel and location - an additional $30 a night for really no added benefits for a diamond member means that I'll move my future business elsewhere.
Last edited by BBQMonster; Oct 3, 2018 at 1:32 pm Reason: Mistake
Oct 3, 2018, 2:51 pm
#213
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Long Beach, CA
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Posts: 3,559
Well - they have finally added a resort fee...$30USD a night. I booked a few nights in December about a month ago and there was no fee. Checked today and the new fee was added for future reservations. Includes, internet access, movies, telephone calls, water and a bunch of coupons. While I like the hotel and location - an additional $30 a night for really no added benefits for a diamond member means that I'll move my future business elsewhere.
I double-checked and the Embassy Waikiki Beach (where I ended up staying) still appears to be resort charge-free into early next year.
Oct 5, 2018, 10:32 am
#214
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: VPS, previously SEA and PIT
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Posts: 1,194
Well - they have finally added a resort fee...$30USD a night. I booked a few nights in December about a month ago and there was no fee. Checked today and the new fee was added for future reservations. Includes, internet access, movies, telephone calls, water and a bunch of coupons. While I like the hotel and location - an additional $30 a night for really no added benefits for a diamond member means that I'll move my future business elsewhere.
Oct 5, 2018, 11:10 am
#215
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: CLT
Programs: Pre✓, Delta DM, Hilton LT Diamond, Mariott Plat, PC Gold, National EE, Hertz PC
Posts: 1,655
Ask them to waive the fee (or at least reduce it), for a Diamond member it should be a no-brainer.
I recently ran into this "resort-fee" at the Hilton Royal Palms - Kingston Plantation, Myrtle Beach, SC. I asked if they could waive the fee and the Diamond Desk indicated that there would be no resort fee for a reward stay.
If the fee includes parking or valet parking it might be worth it. Ask what flexibility they have with that, you might be surprised.
I recently ran into this "resort-fee" at the Hilton Royal Palms - Kingston Plantation, Myrtle Beach, SC. I asked if they could waive the fee and the Diamond Desk indicated that there would be no resort fee for a reward stay.
If the fee includes parking or valet parking it might be worth it. Ask what flexibility they have with that, you might be surprised.
Oct 6, 2018, 10:42 am
#216
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Very sad news about the resort fee. It makes the Marriott Waikiki Beach competitive to them again.
Resort fees are the crack cocaine of the hospitality industry. Resist, resist, resist...and then the moment you start them the hotel will never end them.
Resort fees are the crack cocaine of the hospitality industry. Resist, resist, resist...and then the moment you start them the hotel will never end them.
Nov 3, 2018, 9:25 am
#217
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Hudson, OH
Programs: UA-MM; Hilton Lifetime Diamond, Marriott Gold
Posts: 1,350
I stayed here couple nights at the end of Oct. I knew about the resort fee. At check-in, the front desk agents gave everyone a canned speech how there was now a resort fee that they hoped everyone understood.
Executive lounge OK, especially for breakfast. But in evenings still prefer the main-floor lounge for drinks and live entertainment.
Wanted to add that the hotel seems to have changed its focus from a business hotel where vacationers were very welcomed TO vice versa.
Still bunch of military personnel around, with a fair number of business people.
Executive lounge OK, especially for breakfast. But in evenings still prefer the main-floor lounge for drinks and live entertainment.
Wanted to add that the hotel seems to have changed its focus from a business hotel where vacationers were very welcomed TO vice versa.
Still bunch of military personnel around, with a fair number of business people.
Last edited by Zip; Nov 3, 2018 at 9:31 am Reason: Add more info
Nov 3, 2018, 10:03 pm
#218
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Location: Over the Bay Bridge, CA
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Well, hotel, are you listening? Tomorrow I'm staying elsewhere for the first time in a while because of your BS fee. (Or is that RS fee.) My typical stay is 1 to 2 nights, about twice a year, not going there for my "Hawaiian paradise vacation of a lifetime" and just want a respectable clean, convenient, and functional place to stay.
Nov 4, 2018, 12:47 am
#219
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: SoCal; DO-RAGS: Old Gold tagged, PIP, LatPass 1/2, AA 4MM, HH LT Diamond, Marriott Titanium/LT Plat, Omni
Posts: 9,180
Well, hotel, are you listening? Tomorrow I'm staying elsewhere for the first time in a while because of your BS fee. (Or is that RS fee.) My typical stay is 1 to 2 nights, about twice a year, not going there for my "Hawaiian paradise vacation of a lifetime" and just want a respectable clean, convenient, and functional place to stay.
No resort fee for an award stay, fwiw. I am on the top floor in a three balconies, two bathroom suite with a city view and only a slice of water.
Breakfast OK, evening faire was unappetizing day one, so haven't been back.
It's fine @ 50k per night and staff are plenty hospitable, but wouldn't want to hang here for my once in a lifetime...but then, that's my view of Honolulu in general.
Nov 4, 2018, 10:50 am
#221
Join Date: Nov 2010
Programs: AS MVPG, HH Diamond
Posts: 232
Oh, we understand all right. Keep the base rate to where it appears to be low, then tack things on. We've stayed there and it is a perfectly fine hotel, but it is no "resort."
Nov 4, 2018, 1:14 pm
#222
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: CONUS
Programs: HHonors, United, Delta
Posts: 828
I like this hotel alright, but the pool sucks. It’s in the shade a lot of the day, and tiny. The lounge is an afterthought. If the breakfast was at (or at least discounted) at MAC/24, then we’d have a winner on that count, but... it’s not.
Furnishings and rooms are very trim and stylish, I like the general feel of the rooms.
But the new resort fee just poofed this hotel out of existence for me. For the money, the ES is still the best property of all the Waikiki Hiltons, in my opinion, especially for families.
I stayed at the DT recently - not beachy but not bad. That and the newish HGI are my cheaper-business-quick stay-choices for the area.
Furnishings and rooms are very trim and stylish, I like the general feel of the rooms.
But the new resort fee just poofed this hotel out of existence for me. For the money, the ES is still the best property of all the Waikiki Hiltons, in my opinion, especially for families.
I stayed at the DT recently - not beachy but not bad. That and the newish HGI are my cheaper-business-quick stay-choices for the area.
Nov 5, 2018, 8:03 am
#223
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Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: Ewa Beach, Hawaii
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Ask them to waive the fee (or at least reduce it), for a Diamond member it should be a no-brainer.
I recently ran into this "resort-fee" at the Hilton Royal Palms - Kingston Plantation, Myrtle Beach, SC. I asked if they could waive the fee and the Diamond Desk indicated that there would be no resort fee for a reward stay.
If the fee includes parking or valet parking it might be worth it. Ask what flexibility they have with that, you might be surprised.
I recently ran into this "resort-fee" at the Hilton Royal Palms - Kingston Plantation, Myrtle Beach, SC. I asked if they could waive the fee and the Diamond Desk indicated that there would be no resort fee for a reward stay.
If the fee includes parking or valet parking it might be worth it. Ask what flexibility they have with that, you might be surprised.
Nov 9, 2018, 12:00 am
#224
Join Date: Nov 2018
Posts: 2
With the new resort fee, is there a definitive answer on whether it would apply to future reservations made prior to the announcement? Viewing my reservation for December, the total still shows the original cost, whilst creating a new reservation, it shows a total with the added resort fee.
Any chance of avoiding the fee, by skipping the front desk by doing an online check-in along with digital key?
Any chance of avoiding the fee, by skipping the front desk by doing an online check-in along with digital key?
Nov 9, 2018, 11:53 am
#225
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: DAY
Programs: Rapid Rewards, Skymiles, Hilton HHonors, SPG/Marriott Rewards
Posts: 4,941
With the new resort fee, is there a definitive answer on whether it would apply to future reservations made prior to the announcement? Viewing my reservation for December, the total still shows the original cost, whilst creating a new reservation, it shows a total with the added resort fee.
Any chance of avoiding the fee, by skipping the front desk by doing an online check-in along with digital key?
Any chance of avoiding the fee, by skipping the front desk by doing an online check-in along with digital key?