Dec 29, 2018, 11:12 am
Last edit by: emofeng
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, 2023, 11:28 am
#436
Ambassador: World of Hyatt
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: San Diego,CA
Posts: 10,088
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, 2023, 1:24 pm
#437
Join Date: Jun 2013
Programs: Delta DDM 720, SPG Unobtainium, CC Adamantium, can I keep bragging now?
Posts: 306
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.
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, 2023, 1:29 pm
#438
Join Date: Feb 2020
Programs: British Airways Executive Club Gold, Marriott Bonvoy Titanium Elite, Hilton Diamond, IHG Diamond Amb
Posts: 1,771
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, 2023, 1:51 pm
#439
Join Date: May 2009
Location: EUG
Programs: AS MVP, AA MM, HH Diamond, MR Gold
Posts: 8,220
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, 2023, 4:06 pm
#440
Join Date: Feb 2000
Posts: 6,546
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, 2023, 6:48 pm
#441
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: SAN
Posts: 1,306
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, 2023, 8:17 pm
#442
Join Date: Aug 2013
Programs: HH Lifetime Diamond, DL PM, Hertz President's Circle
Posts: 920
Absolutely false. Two Queen Superior Room is bookable as a standard room with points and certificates. Also, this hotel is beyond accommodating (and easily the best WA in the USA). I have a 5 night stay coming up in the summer and booked a Deluxe King Accessible with points. I like to guarantee the Beverly Hills king in advance for the larger room and view, and a quick email secured a confirmed upgrade for a measly $85.00/night + tax. Not only will they change within your category from an accessible to non-accessible for free, they will confirm an upgrade to whatever category you want if you pay the difference, thus freeing up the accessible room back into inventory.
Feb 18, 2023, 8:51 pm
#443
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 4,872
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.
Mar 21, 2023, 9:56 am
#445
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 1,028
Mar 21, 2023, 1:44 pm
#446
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: SFO
Posts: 3,881
The amount of incorrect information in your last post is amazing….have no idea where to begin….but here goes….
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.
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.
May 4, 2023, 10:41 am
#447
Join Date: Feb 2021
Location: Seattle, WA
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Diamond, Bonvoy Plat, IHG Diamond
Posts: 23
FYI - for random dates in September and October they are selling a Superior Corner Junior Suite for 69k pts or <$200. It is a premium room award. There might be more dates available, but those months are the ones I quickly spot-checked.
Last edited by rajanh3; May 4, 2023 at 11:01 am
May 4, 2023, 12:56 pm
#449
Join Date: Jan 2022
Posts: 23
I was upgraded to jr. suite accessible room. In my eyes, there were no mentionable difference without the bathroom having a curtain instead of glass doors (so it is easier to access for sure). But without it, I was not able to recognize it is a accessible room.
May 4, 2023, 5:10 pm
#450
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 1,028
That's gotta be a price mistake and I'm surprised you didn't book. Shows $2k to for me.