Conrad Tokyo {JPN}
Sep 24, 2018, 4:21 pm
#121
Join Date: Jan 2013
Programs: hhonors gold, priority club plat
Posts: 20
As mentioned up thread property may be blocking weekend nights. Any chance they will open up later? Looking to book award night (Fri or Sat) for January but not currently available. I noticed at least the Fri or Sat are available for current months to December. It does not appear February and beyond schedule has not posted yet.
Sep 24, 2018, 8:02 pm
#122
Join Date: Oct 2012
Programs: UA Mileage Plus, AAdvantage, Southwest, HHonors, National
Posts: 528
As mentioned up thread property may be blocking weekend nights. Any chance they will open up later? Looking to book award night (Fri or Sat) for January but not currently available. I noticed at least the Fri or Sat are available for current months to December. It does not appear February and beyond schedule has not posted yet.
Saturday nights are the most expensive ones at nicer hotels in Japan because of their highly lucrative wedding business. Understandably hotels would much rather cash in than receive the meager compensation HH gives them.
I am unaware of HH practices, but one advantage of IHG is that they compensate the hotel for its average room rate when occupancy exceeds 95%, which helps with award availability and makes it a win-win for the hotel and the guest, if not for IHG.
That said I have been regularly checking Tokyo award availability for a specific Saturday this winter, and am reasonably confident the Conrad never made even one standard award room available at any point.
This all comes down to those certificates, where the original intent was for US customers to use them on weekends when business was slow; Japan has always been an exception, and is where I have redeemed most of my IC AMB weekend BOGO certs for the past decades.
I am unaware of HH practices, but one advantage of IHG is that they compensate the hotel for its average room rate when occupancy exceeds 95%, which helps with award availability and makes it a win-win for the hotel and the guest, if not for IHG.
That said I have been regularly checking Tokyo award availability for a specific Saturday this winter, and am reasonably confident the Conrad never made even one standard award room available at any point.
This all comes down to those certificates, where the original intent was for US customers to use them on weekends when business was slow; Japan has always been an exception, and is where I have redeemed most of my IC AMB weekend BOGO certs for the past decades.
Sep 24, 2018, 11:03 pm
#123
Join Date: Jan 2013
Programs: hhonors gold, priority club plat
Posts: 20
[QUOTE=Gradfly;30241786 I posted a similar statement about weekends in the Hilton Tokyo thread[/QUOTE]
Ha got my threads mixed up. Guess that is where I saw it as the Hilton will be my backup. Looked at flex schedule again now and there are dates showing again end of Feb. Then nothing starting March.
Can only fit in a stay Jan 18 but premium awards only rigjt now. Will try contacting hotel directly. Thanks for the email!
Ha got my threads mixed up. Guess that is where I saw it as the Hilton will be my backup. Looked at flex schedule again now and there are dates showing again end of Feb. Then nothing starting March.
Can only fit in a stay Jan 18 but premium awards only rigjt now. Will try contacting hotel directly. Thanks for the email!
Oct 11, 2018, 8:04 am
#125
Join Date: Jun 2015
Posts: 1,481
You can try to send an email. Maybe they know it.
Oct 11, 2018, 1:59 pm
#126
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Austin
Programs: WN ALP, CP; AA Gold, Hilton Diamond, SPG Gold
Posts: 62
Need Questions Answered?
I just started a five-night points stay as a Diamond and am here now. Does anyone have any questions about the property that I can answer or get the answer to while I'm here?
Oct 11, 2018, 2:42 pm
#127
Join Date: May 2016
Location: GLA
Programs: BAEC Bronze
Posts: 143
Oct 11, 2018, 2:43 pm
#128
Join Date: May 2010
Location: London
Programs: HH Diamond; BA Gold
Posts: 154
When is their next sale, so they are within my company’s rate cap?! I jest (not really) - enjoy your stay!
Oct 12, 2018, 6:38 am
#129
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: WAS
Programs: Free Agent
Posts: 1,757
Having tried both, I think I'll just sit tight for the moment and wait for a flash sale on the Bay Views (or wait out a city).
Oct 12, 2018, 7:12 am
#131
Join Date: Jun 2015
Posts: 1,481
Speak of the devil. I had been checking daily for a few weeks, and the schedule for September just went up today. No base city view rooms available for cash, but there are Bay View and Executive Cities up.
Having tried both, I think I'll just sit tight for the moment and wait for a flash sale on the Bay Views (or wait out a city).
Having tried both, I think I'll just sit tight for the moment and wait for a flash sale on the Bay Views (or wait out a city).
I'm afraid, you have to check often (somethng between daily and weekly) to avoid missing the availability of the city view roooms. But easy to do by app.
Of course you can ask, if they have an event there and that is why the standard rooms are not available.
And by the way: Conrad Tokyo is often a good place to burn points instead of cash.
Oct 12, 2018, 11:30 am
#132
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Austin
Programs: WN ALP, CP; AA Gold, Hilton Diamond, SPG Gold
Posts: 62
Had breakfast in the lounge the first morning. Eggs cooked to order (Benedict) and buffet spread we're the best if any lounge I've visited so far, but this is my first visit to Asia. Lounge is on the 37th floor and gets very crowded but still got a decent table .
Oct 12, 2018, 11:33 am
#133
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Austin
Programs: WN ALP, CP; AA Gold, Hilton Diamond, SPG Gold
Posts: 62
I believe they do sales both in Spring and Fall. I saw base rooms going for as low as $450 or so a few weeks before we arrived. I booked months ago on points though so wasn't paying much attention.
Oct 12, 2018, 1:22 pm
#134
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Join Date: Aug 2018
Posts: 590