Dec 29, 18, 11:12 am
Last edit by: Adam1222
Diamond benefit as of Dec 28, 2018
- $50 benefit ($25/pp; max 2) toward food, can be used on room service or at any food outlet. This can be used toward breakfast but there is no specific breakfast benefit.
- Noon checkout
- Space available upgrade; one category. Room to suite is ineligible, regardless of category booked (as of 09/2019)
Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills {US-CA}
Feb 18, 23, 11:28 am
#436
Ambassador: World of Hyatt
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: San Diego,CA
Posts: 9,428
This has been going on for years and especially since travel has rebounded over the past year or so
Hotels simply want to offer the least desirable rooms so they can more easily sell the most desirable inventory first if possible
They have to offer something as they are bound to by program rules
Next few weeks I tried booking the InterContinental Los Angeles downtown on points and the same thing happened
Only handicapped rooms.I’ve noticed too at MGM resorts in Las Vegas some of their brands sell the handicapped accessible rooms for less as they are the last to sell or the least desirable rooms unless you are indeed handicapped
Hotels simply want to offer the least desirable rooms so they can more easily sell the most desirable inventory first if possible
They have to offer something as they are bound to by program rules
Next few weeks I tried booking the InterContinental Los Angeles downtown on points and the same thing happened
Only handicapped rooms.I’ve noticed too at MGM resorts in Las Vegas some of their brands sell the handicapped accessible rooms for less as they are the last to sell or the least desirable rooms unless you are indeed handicapped
Feb 18, 23, 1:24 pm
#437
Join Date: Jun 2013
Programs: Delta DDM 720, SPG Unobtainium, CC Adamantium, can I keep bragging now?
Posts: 306
Originally Posted by Traveler Dave
Easy Tiger!
The hotel does offer standard room availability that can be used with FNC and/or 120K points for non-handicapped rooms. It just goes fast! I have two rooms booked for next month that were booked that way. I have stayed there a few times on FNC/points where the room was booked as handicapped. But always moved to a non-handicapped room at check-in.
Please tread lightly before bringing your concerns to the “right people”. All you stand to gain is getting the hotel to remove options to use our certs.
The hotel does offer standard room availability that can be used with FNC and/or 120K points for non-handicapped rooms. It just goes fast! I have two rooms booked for next month that were booked that way. I have stayed there a few times on FNC/points where the room was booked as handicapped. But always moved to a non-handicapped room at check-in.
Please tread lightly before bringing your concerns to the “right people”. All you stand to gain is getting the hotel to remove options to use our certs.
As for your last line... gross.
Originally Posted by Eujeanie
"Please tread lightly before bringing your concerns to the “right people”. All you stand to gain is getting the hotel to remove options to use our certs."
This
This
Kind of sad that you people care more about the possibility of a Free Night Award chart being changed than you do people who actually need those rooms.
Feb 18, 23, 1:29 pm
#438
Join Date: Feb 2020
Programs: British Airways Executive Club Gold, Marriott Bonvoy Ambassador Elite, Hilton Diamond, IHG Platinum
Posts: 1,400
This doesn’t affect handicapped people in any way. It’s just the hotel playing games to try and prevent points redemptions. It’s very easy to book the accessible room and then email or call the hotel to let them know that you won’t need the accessible room itself and are happy to be moved to another one, if someone with mobility issues needs that room. The hotel knows what they are doing. It’s their job to manage inventory.
Feb 18, 23, 1:51 pm
#439
Join Date: May 2009
Location: EUG
Programs: AS MVP, AA MM, HH Diamond, MR Gold
Posts: 7,454
Originally Posted by HonoraryOrange
You are absolutely incorrect about other rooms. The only rooms available for booking with a Free Night Award are the Accessible rooms. Points are on a totally different system and can basically always be booked.
As for your last line... gross.
Also gross.
Kind of sad that you people care more about the possibility of a Free Night Award chart being changed than you do people who actually need those rooms.
As for your last line... gross.
Also gross.
Kind of sad that you people care more about the possibility of a Free Night Award chart being changed than you do people who actually need those rooms.
But it's wrong of them to state that if you don't need one, don't book this room. That effectively puts you in a position of never being able to use a FNC.
That's what's gross.
Feb 18, 23, 4:06 pm
#440
Join Date: Feb 2000
Posts: 5,866
California law doesn’t allow a new $1000n 200 room hotel to have fewer ADA rooms than a new $100n 200 room hotel, even though being handicap is an excellent predictor of demand for more $200n rooms than $1000n rooms. So, a $1000n luxury hotel has a vast oversupply of ADA rooms.
Feb 18, 23, 6:48 pm
#441
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: SAN
Posts: 1,249
Originally Posted by HonoraryOrange
You are absolutely incorrect about other rooms. The only rooms available for booking with a Free Night Award are the Accessible rooms. Points are on a totally different system and can basically always be booked..
All Standard Room Reward space is available for FNCs. At the WABH the standard award room goes for 120K points. Any room going for that amount can be used for a FNC. If you look in July most nights are available for 120K. Some are assigned to ADA rooms and some to non-ADA rooms. FNC can be used on either.
Feb 18, 23, 8:17 pm
#442
Join Date: Aug 2013
Programs: HH Lifetime Diamond, DL PM, Hertz President's Circle
Posts: 886
Originally Posted by HonoraryOrange
You are absolutely incorrect about other rooms. The only rooms available for booking with a Free Night Award are the Accessible rooms. Points are on a totally different system and can basically always be booked.
Feb 18, 23, 8:51 pm
#443
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 4,553
Originally Posted by HonoraryOrange
You are absolutely incorrect about other rooms. The only rooms available for booking with a Free Night Award are the Accessible rooms. Points are on a totally different system and can basically always be booked.
As for your last line... gross.
Also gross.
Kind of sad that you people care more about the possibility of a Free Night Award chart being changed than you do people who actually need those rooms.
As for your last line... gross.
Also gross.
Kind of sad that you people care more about the possibility of a Free Night Award chart being changed than you do people who actually need those rooms.
