Trianon Palace Versailles, A Waldorf Astoria Hotel {FRA} (France)
Dec 1, 2012, 2:15 am
#92
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: DUS
Programs: UA Gold, FB, Hilton Diamond, Marriott Gold
Posts: 134
Spending 2 days to see Versailles should be enough. If you go there, do check to palace website to pick a date on which the fountains in the gardens are operating, otherwise you are missing the nicest parts of the gardens.
The Gorden Ramsey restaurant might be nice, but if I remember correctly, the typical price for a single entree was 70 Euros, which we considered too much. However, if you walk 5 minutes, you can find very nice and more affordable restaurants (e.g. I can highly recommend Nuance on Boulevard du Roi 10)
The Gorden Ramsey restaurant might be nice, but if I remember correctly, the typical price for a single entree was 70 Euros, which we considered too much. However, if you walk 5 minutes, you can find very nice and more affordable restaurants (e.g. I can highly recommend Nuance on Boulevard du Roi 10)
Dec 1, 2012, 3:16 pm
#93
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Germany, Austria
Programs: IHG Diamond Ambassador, ALL Silver,, Miles&More
Posts: 1,122
IMHO, you would only want to stay one or at the most two nights in Versailles. You need to take the RER to get from Paris to Versailles. Versailles is too easy to see in one day to spend the night there (trains to Versailles are not every 3 or 4 minutes like the metro). If you must use HHonors points, I would stay at any of the central Paris Hilton hotels and just take the metro to the major sites. That way you can spend time seeing the Paris sites rather than seeing the RER.
May 1, 2013, 1:45 am
#94
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: LHR
Programs: Ex-NWA Plat
Posts: 1,480
HHonors mistake rate
The Trianon Palace is now a category 9 at 80,000 points a night.
However, premium rooms are showing up at 59,000 points a night for several nights in the summer - not sure if this is a pricing glitch or not... try 13-15 August for example... and look down the list of rooms available with points.
Good luck!
However, premium rooms are showing up at 59,000 points a night for several nights in the summer - not sure if this is a pricing glitch or not... try 13-15 August for example... and look down the list of rooms available with points.
Good luck!
May 1, 2013, 8:32 am
#95
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: DUS
Programs: UA Gold, FB, Hilton Diamond, Marriott Gold
Posts: 134
The Trianon Palace is now a category 9 at 80,000 points a night.
However, premium rooms are showing up at 59,000 points a night for several nights in the summer - not sure if this is a pricing glitch or not... try 13-15 August for example... and look down the list of rooms available with points.
Good luck!
However, premium rooms are showing up at 59,000 points a night for several nights in the summer - not sure if this is a pricing glitch or not... try 13-15 August for example... and look down the list of rooms available with points.
Good luck!
May 2, 2013, 2:16 pm
#96
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: LHR
Programs: Ex-NWA Plat
Posts: 1,480
This is not a mistake rate. It happens regularly if a hotel is not so busy and the room prices are low, that the premium room rewards for nicer rooms are lower than the regular rewards for the standard rooms. We have made use of this a number of times in the past year and never experienced problems, you will just get your reserved room (or a better one) without problems.
May 2, 2013, 7:24 pm
#97
Join Date: Sep 2012
Programs: HHonnors Diamond, AA Gold, UA Silver
Posts: 293
Syon Park Hilton (was a waldorf property not too long ago)
The Hilton in london close to the EuroStar station (don't recall the name, just look at the map and pick the one a few blocks away from the train station for EuroStar).
Dublin Conrad.
Hilton Grafton Edinburgh.
Hilton Amsterdam.
Those six had lower premium prices roughly a year ago when HHonnors started the premium pricing scheme for what that's worth. (so did Arc De Triumph, however they are gone now). I think the Athens Greece Hilton also had lower premiums however I didn't book there so cannot confirm...
May 3, 2013, 5:56 am
#98
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: DUS
Programs: UA Gold, FB, Hilton Diamond, Marriott Gold
Posts: 134
Hilton Dusseldorf
Trianon Palace
Hilton The Hague
Hilton Villamoura
Hilton Longboat Key
and maybe one or 2 others
May 24, 2013, 11:14 pm
#99
Join Date: Jan 2010
Programs: TK E+;EY S; OW EMD; SPG P; CC C
Posts: 9
Checked-in yesterday for 1 night. Only 2 persons were at small reception desk and there was queue. As a Diamond, I recieved an upgrade from Pavillon room to Pavillon room garden view (There was 5 minuts searching for the room at 2.30pm), welcome drinks for two (they have Taittinger by glass, which is nice), free internet and at 7.00pm they gave me 2 bottle of water and letter from Gregoire Salamin.
The hotel is half empty. The room is nice, but nothing special. And 220 euros is too much for it. Full breakfast is still 36 euros, but they told me, that they have a discount for the breakfast and it will be only 29! But I think, it is just continental breakfast with no discount.
So, Diamonds there is just a guest, nothing special! Especially compare to Hilton Lyon or Hilton Strasbourg where the attitude was fantastic (may be only for me)
And big thanks to everyone, it's the first post.
. The hotel is half empty. The room is nice, but nothing special. And 220 euros is too much for it. Full breakfast is still 36 euros, but they told me, that they have a discount for the breakfast and it will be only 29! But I think, it is just continental breakfast with no discount.
So, Diamonds there is just a guest, nothing special! Especially compare to Hilton Lyon or Hilton Strasbourg where the attitude was fantastic (may be only for me
) And big thanks to everyone, it's the first post.
May 25, 2013, 12:09 am
#100
Join Date: Dec 2006
Programs: LH SEN, FB Plat., HH D.
Posts: 5,050
Checked-in yesterday for 1 night. Only 2 persons were at small reception desk and there was queue. As a Diamond, I recieved an upgrade from Pavillon room to Pavillon room garden view (There was 5 minuts searching for the room at 2.30pm), welcome drinks for two (they have Taittinger by glass, which is nice), free internet and at 7.00pm they gave me 2 bottle of water and letter from Gregoire Salamin.
The hotel is half empty. The room is nice, but nothing special. And 220 euros is too much for it. Full breakfast is still 36 euros, but they told me, that they have a discount for the breakfast and it will be only 29! But I think, it is just continental breakfast with no discount.
So, Diamonds there is just a guest, nothing special! Especially compare to Hilton Lyon or Hilton Strasbourg where the attitude was fantastic (may be only for me)
And big thanks to everyone, it's the first post.
. The hotel is half empty. The room is nice, but nothing special. And 220 euros is too much for it. Full breakfast is still 36 euros, but they told me, that they have a discount for the breakfast and it will be only 29! But I think, it is just continental breakfast with no discount.
So, Diamonds there is just a guest, nothing special! Especially compare to Hilton Lyon or Hilton Strasbourg where the attitude was fantastic (may be only for me
) And big thanks to everyone, it's the first post.
Sep 6, 2013, 3:29 pm
#105
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 171
Trianon Palace Versailles, The Waldorf Astoria Collection
What do you folks think about a €39 upgrade to a 'palace king' room? This would be a NOR1 upgrade from the standard king room in the pavilion. Sounds like the only complimentary upgrade I'd receive is to a pavilion king w/ view room. I've heard mixed reviews on the pavilion though.
My stay is only for 2 nights, 1 of them using a citi cert.
Any tips for visiting the Palace itself?
My stay is only for 2 nights, 1 of them using a citi cert.
Any tips for visiting the Palace itself?