jftino

are you able to renew gold status with MVP or is it just for first timers?

Also I believe i read rewards stays count towards the 4 stays needed? is this correct? can anyone confirm? thanks in advance everyone.

DiverDave

MVP is usually 20% as noted. I've never found a Homewood Suites to offer an MVP rate. Hamptons are hit or miss. HGIs, Hiltons, and ES seem to generally have the MVP rate. MVP stays count for status just like any qualifying paid stay.

AAA seems to be typically 5% or 10%, but I have occasionally found exceptional AAA discount rates. Examples are the Beverly Hilton a year ago and the ES LAX North a couple of months ago. The latter came and went on almost a daily basis, but was 25% off the BAR rate as I recall.

David

GoDucks71

"I've never found a Homewood Suites to offer an MVP rate."

I have stayed in Homewood Suites at an MVP Rate, which has beaten all other rates, in Tukwila, WA and Salt Lake City, UT.

cblaisd

I see Homewood MVP rates all the time. And as I've noted elsewhere, Homewood is the only one who has the verbiage in the rate rules about having to show press credentials; the rest of the HHonors hotels don't say that.

erikbox

I tried it recently and was asked for press credentials. I offered an ID but I must have had a saavy clerk who looked at me sheepishly and offered the best available rate. Oh well! I have had luck with some corporate codes...

cblaisd

At a Homewood?

I just had a stay at a Doubletree this last week (where the MVP code dropped the rate from $229 to $167!) and it was check-in-as usual.

zachary

Please identify the property involved. I've used MVP rates for years and this has never happened. I have not tried at a Homewood where the press credential thing is on the website.

lateiner

No issue here at the Short Hills Hilton using the MVP rate this past weekend. They had my HH# on-file already, but that was the only item required per the reservation text.

travelinfoo

I thought MVP was for sports organizations. I carry my club's card just in case, never been asked. I have seen the press credential requirements on some (I'm a freelance journalist) but never been asked for anything.

BrlDsguise

By tried it do you mean you asked for an MVP rate at the front desk or had you already made a reservation using an MVP code?

StayingHomeIsBetter

The more I read the more confused I get.

I have gone to the MVP website, and I find nothing posted there that mentions any particular affiliation or qualification for using the website... other than having a HHonors number.

I had called the Diamond desk to make a reservation, and inquired about the MVP rate at an ORD area hotel and was told that the hotel was not offering an MVP rate.

I then found this thread, which reminded me that I had a link to the MVP website.

Went to the website and found the hotel was offering the MVP rate. I called back to the Diamond desk, explained the situation, DD still could not find the rate, I made the reservation on-line and had the DD cancel the original reservation.

In all of my discussions with the DD, there was no mention of any restrictions on the use of the MVP rate.

I subsequently canceled another reservation and remade it at the MVP rate.

I now have two e-mails showing the two reservations, and neither have any stipulations about me having to produce anything at check-in.

I would not seek to take advantage of a situation that I did not qualify for, so what am I overlooking?

ayg

I've used it at probably 50 different properties domestically and never had a single word said to me...

sdix

I actually use it legitimately and have never been asked for ID

zachary

True for me as well.

cblaisd

Nothing.

As has been stated repeatedly, the only HHonors hotels with the "press credentials" verbiage in the rate rules are at Homewood Suites.