jacobus

I have a stay here in up coming months booked paid Queen rooms, any chance of a possible upgrade?

jsn55

Depends on what status level you hold at HHonors. As a Diamond, I was given an incredible room when I checked in; there was no discussion at all. Read all about the perks you are entitled to at your level so you know what you can ask for.

jacobus

Perfect I am also a Diamond.

neuro0

No upgrade to 2 diamonds members rooms here when we visited 2 weeks ago despite showing better rooms available. I did get am email preemptively telling me they were very full and likely no upgrade.
Lounge closes at 7pm. Kindly of early IMO. Breakfast is 7a to 11a. Don’t know what else the lounge offers since no one told me during check in and no posted sign at the lounge that I could see.

jamesteroh

Depends on your level and your rate and how full they are.

If the hotel is pretty full or you are only a silver probably no way. If you are a diamond and there are lots of suites you have a good shot.

One time I had a really small room but that was what I booked on a free night and the hotel was walking peopel because they were over capacity

When I was ther elast year as a Diamond I received a very nice upgrade to a 2 room mini suite and it was a five night point stay with the fifth night free on points. I was upgraded before arrival and the front desk made a commoent about al lthe Hilton stays I had (not sure if she was talking about Hilton activity in general or just that I had stayed there a few times before and was a returning guest).

Acid

I have a one night stay in Paris in Dec and using my Aspire FNC. Arrive early at 6AM at CDG and leave next day by train at 9PM.

First time in Paris. I've booked Hilton Opera but wondering if Canopy is better. My plan is just to walk around the landmarks and get a feel of the city and maybe visit any small Christmas market if they are there. No plans to see museums or shows. Any suggestions if I should keep the booking or switch to Canopy? Early and late checkout will be awesome(Diamond member)

hotturnip

With so little time, stay at the Hilton Opera because of the location. You'll be near the "grand magasins" (big department stores) which should be quite busy and festive before Christmas. You can stroll the Champs Elysees up to the Arc de Triomphe.

The Paris Metro is probably the best in the world for getting you where you need to go, so get a day pass and just bop around wherever you like.

jsn55

I was underwhelmed with Hilton Opera but haven't stayed at Canopy yet. I'm Diamond and was not allowed to check in early, it was quite awful waiting around for the room after a 10-hour flight. The French can sometimes be like that. Hilton Opera is in a terrific location tho. And it's perfectly 'fine'.

Acid

Were you allowed to use the lounge/gym early?

FPmiles

Requested for a crib and opera is trying to upsell me a junior king room to gurantee a crib. My stay is in 2 weeks. I call BS as they try to make that requirement.

Thoughts?

jzafar

I have never stayed there but did read the standard rooms are very small. Not sure if a crib could fit in there. It was for the room size reason I ended up choosing a non-Hilton property when I went.

ER-One

Stayed in August of this year. Booked a standard room and gambled.
There were no issues accommodating a crib in the standard room at check-in, but it severely limited the space in the room.

However, they were very difficult to deal with for a Diamond suite upgrade, but I eventually found an agent who got me into a suite later in the day.

Needless to say, YMMV, but I have a successful datapoint of showing up with an infant and getting a crib in a standard room.

jacobus

How did you convince them to get the upgrade? Will be staying this December. I wonder how busy or booked they are during December

ER-One

TL;DR - You need to be your own advocate at Paris Opera...

​​​​​​​While I have no insight into December, my story was as follows:

On the day of arrival for a 3-night stay, the app was offering a suite available for all three nights. Based on this, I thought I had a chance if I asked nicely.
We arrived early, and the check in rep was courteous and was happy to get us in our standard room early. I then executed my classic "gosh, I think I'm some fancy Diamond member and can get a suite. Do you have any available?" it was met with a "sorry, no suites available".... I didnt want to push the subject, so i waited a few hours and came back to "innocently" speak to another front desk rep.

This time, i got "well, we have one for the first two nights, but not the third". As we were traveling with our little one, i was happy to have a suite for two nights and had no issues moving back, all the while confident that a suite would be available for the third night.
I told the agent that was great and she was a bit taken back that I was going to "inconvenience myself". She let me know that this would require a call to her manager, and asked me if I wanted her to do that. I politely said yes

After the second night, I asked if we were indeed going to need to changed rooms for the third, and this agent said unfortunately yes, but it would be to a different suite.....

I think they try to keep their suites as unoccupied as possible, especially as the rack rate for those nights were ~800EUR each and I was on an award stay......

jamesteroh

If it'[s the last two weeks of december they'll probably be pretty busy. I was thinking of going to Paris on New Years weekend for five nights and rates were sky high. If it's early December it shouldn't be too bad.

Something that helps also is if you have a lot of nights with Hilton and have earned status as opposed to credit card status. Somehow they can tell how many nights you have with Hilton in a year and they made the comment to me last stay about how many nights I had and also helped I was a repeat guest.

I stay there mainly do to the location. I'd do breakfast in the breakfast room instead of the exec lounge.
Exec lounge is better than any US lounge, but pretty lame for an overseas lounge. They only have a couple kinds of wine at happy hour and no spirits and the appetizers aren't anything to write home about. Plenty of good places to eat at near the hotel.

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