CHCflyer

Looking to spend four nights in YVR in mid-June. Not one Hilton property has any rooms available. They are all posting ‘ring us for availability’ notes. Expedia showing rooms at fairly reasonable rates for my travel dates at the Hilton and Hampton Inn.
i am attending a trade show but it is not that big a deal for a city like YVR.
reluctant to use an OTA as I won’t get my points but I think it is strange of Hilton to have nothing via their website but make availability via a third party.
eill see what my travel agent can secure.

Jimgotkp

Might have been on HH's website during the routine late night maintenance over the weekends.

I wish HH would come up with more properties in the city. It's sad when their best property is a Hampton Inn unless you need to be in Metrotown or by YVR

YOWCDNFF

Marriott/SPG have an insane amount of properties in the core area and even Fairmont has more exposure than HH. As management agreements expire, I would not be shocked to see a mid-range property become available for a rebranding as a Doubletree. Pure speculation on my part, but it would be way to expensive to build something brand new in the core at the moment (+ lack of space)

docbert

This. Odds are it wasn't just Vancouver, but every hotel in the world that was "call for availability". It's a standard thing every Saturday night US time.

Why it is that a major GLOBAL chain needs such an outage every single week - at a time which is in the middle of a work day for at least some of the countries they have properties in - is something that really makes no sense in 2018...

jerry a. laska

I'm seeing availability for mid june, at the Hampton except for June 21 - 24 and for the Hilton Metrotown except for June 18 - 22. Besides whatever conference is happening you have to remember that this will be prime Alaska cruise season.

lcohen999

As a frequent visitor to Vancouver, there are times when the city is just booked.

Especially HH hotels. For whatever reason, the city can hit hotel capacity quickly and often

CHCflyer

Thanks Jerry. I have rechecked and rates are now showing, though USD350 for a night in the Hampton Inn is a bit steep. However, it seems to be their only downtown property.

ptownca

The HH options are thin in YVR. I've always had to book Fairmont or Marriott properties here. $350 for a Hampton Inn is insane. The Metrotown property is nowhere near downtown.

pauleeepaul

Emphasis added .

RogerD408

Sometimes property will post rooms with a min/max stay requirement. So when I was on the road all the time and spending multiple nights at a property, I'd check each day individually and then each combination of days. Then I'd stitch together reservations resulting in the lowest total spend. Most properties would allow me to stay in the same room, but I always agreed to move if needed. Sometimes this got me into better rooms, sometimes not. Room rates is a pricing game and checking all combinations can work to your advantage.

lsquare

In my opinion, Hilton's footprint in Vancouver is kind of weak. Does Hilton have any plans to expand in Vancouver?

arlflyer

Not that I'm aware of, but then again I don't work in Corporate Strategy at Hilton...

I do find it strange that there is such a big city that is a glaring hole in the portfolio - Taipei was another example until pretty recently - but then again the world is a big place, and statistics applies, so there's bound to be an outlier here or there.

MarkCron

It is odd... I was looking for a 1 night stay a couple months ago to kick off a promo and ended up at the lousy Hampton by the airport.

lcohen999

I like that little Hampton. Sure it is crappy but it has some charm to it...I don't know why...maybe because I've spent too many nights there

At least you went there post renovations I assume

writerguyfl

Unless they want to build their own hotel (which would be very rare), it's not really up to Hilton. If there aren't any developers thinking of building a new hotel, they only thing a hotel group can do is to try to poach an existing hotel from a competitor. Given the significant costs involved in changing brands, that's not something most hotels are keen to do. Hilton would have to give a lot of "free stuff" to a hotel to compensate for conversion costs (physical things like signage as well as labor costs for training).

Because the hotel industry is basically all franchises, the big hotel groups really are at the mercy of third party companies when it comes to expansion. If no local developers are building (or if funding for large construction projects becomes scarce due to a recession), there's not much that a hotel group can do unless they put up their own money.