[RATE GONE] Le Meridien Khao Lak for 100 Ugandan Shillings
Dec 3, 2006, 1:57 pm
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Ok Got it to work for giving me rooms, but...
It is quoting in USD. How does one get it to go Ugandan?
It is quoting in USD. How does one get it to go Ugandan?
Dec 3, 2006, 1:59 pm
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Dec 3, 2006, 2:00 pm
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Dec 3, 2006, 2:01 pm
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Dec 3, 2006, 2:02 pm
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Dec 3, 2006, 2:02 pm
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I was haphazardly trying different dates (looking for a 2 week stay). It seems kind of random. Wednesday check-ins didn't seem to work, but the following day worked just fine. z5r promo code works to recieve a 25% discount on any length stay. So basically I got the Villa for 14 nights for 450UGX a night or about $3.50 for the stay.
I also checked the rates on Travelocity and can find no rhyme or reason for the differences posted. The 600UGX rate can be had for 305USD (without a prepayment or 100% cancelation policy), so what I had thought was a simple mis-posting of the currency involved, seems to be a bit more.
I tend to book these things pretty far in advance, so I'll have plenty of time to see how this works out, and I do have tentative plans to be in Uganda before arrival, if anyone needs shillings...........
I also checked the rates on Travelocity and can find no rhyme or reason for the differences posted. The 600UGX rate can be had for 305USD (without a prepayment or 100% cancelation policy), so what I had thought was a simple mis-posting of the currency involved, seems to be a bit more.
I tend to book these things pretty far in advance, so I'll have plenty of time to see how this works out, and I do have tentative plans to be in Uganda before arrival, if anyone needs shillings...........
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Dec 3, 2006, 2:44 pm
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It's nice to dream. I've been burned so many times that I don't get upset anymore. The only time I thought we really should have had the deal honored was the La Quinta Resort on a Priceline Name Your Own Price auction bid. What Priceline and Hilton did was illegal!!!!
Dec 3, 2006, 2:47 pm
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But that's not really based on anything... I was surprised that the Holiday Inn in HKT honored the THB0.01 rate.. and I never thought the Conrad BKK would honor the $51 Presidential Suite.
And I enjoyed my $3 executive room at the Tokyo Hilton...
Not sure I can recall the last time that a US-based airline didn't honor a mistake fare. International airlines, it's more hit or miss. Alitalia didn't before they did... I've had success with MX and BA... but COPA's NYC-LIM fare was another story. At the very least there's a better chance of things being honored when they're at least prepaid, e.g. TG cancelled the 72-hour holds on LHR-BKK in F for nothin'.
Hotels? Hard to say! Bora Bora Nui didn't honor an ~ US$80 rate. Priceline didn't even fully honor all prepaid reservations recently in Palm Springs. Marriott didn't honor their Times Square mistake rate. But I had no problem a week ago on a $28 rate for a junior suite at the Renaissance Seattle, and that one wasn't prepaid.
Honestly I'm not sure if I've fully discerned a pattern with hotels.
(1) Book in order to get yourself in the game, should they decide to honor
(2) Don't make additional prepaid travel until you find out if it's going to be honored (though in a couple of cases, having made other arrangements were key to getting the deal honored -- eg Orbitz and Intercontinental Tokyo Bay, and IIRC Bora Bora Nui covered the cost of nonrefundably airfare when cancelling the Bora Bora Nui rate).
(3) Don't contact the booking agent until the deal is over (though asking whether the rate would be honored was in many cases key to having the Hilton Tokyo deal honored).
Guess there aren't really any rules but #1, though I tend to subscribe to 2 and 3...
Dec 3, 2006, 2:50 pm
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Dec 3, 2006, 2:56 pm
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And as of 1:56PM PST, this still works (for dates in March anyway).