Best properties to use FFN
Oct 11, 2009 | 12:19 am
#2
Join Date: Jun 2007
Programs: UA, AA, LH, Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott, Hertz
Posts: 1,762
In general - any Park Hyatt, resorts, and select other hotels. My personal favorites are: PH Vendome (Paris), PH Milan, PH Zurich, PH Tokyo, PH Washington DC, GH Kauai. There other hotels FT members swear by but I didn't have a chance to visit them (yet).
Oct 11, 2009 | 5:22 am
#5
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: SYD
Programs: QF WP (OWE), VA PLAT, EY GLD, SPG PLAT, Hyatt DIA, Hilton DIA, Hertz PC
Posts: 8,664
I know PH Sydney provide Harbour view king as award rooms. They rarely sell "city view" (read no view) which is amazing value for the property with the highest average room rate in Sydney. Combined with a Diamond Upgrade it would make for an amazing NYE.
Oct 11, 2009 | 5:50 am
#6
Moderator: LGBTQ+ Travel & Hyatt Gold Passport
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: CVG
Posts: 15,301
You're not going to be able to combine FFNs redemption with Diamond Suite Upgrades (unless you're really lucky). And from reports, PH SYD doesn't allow awards for New Year's Eve. That said this is a spectacular property to use FFNs (I had 2 rooms for 3 nights a couple of years ago)
Oct 11, 2009 | 5:59 am
#7
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 6,417
Hmmm, that's interesting. You seem to be right that they offer the City/Harbour King for award stays, and in fact that was even the cheapest paid room I was able to find pulling up various dates. And the City/Harbour King does state in the description that it has a "private balcony overlooking Sydney Harbour". But if you pull up the list of rooms from the hotel homepage, it lists a "Park King" which I assume is the base room overlooking the back of the hotel with terrible views. I'm surprised they don't make those available for award stays.
Oct 11, 2009 | 6:15 am
#8
Moderator: LGBTQ+ Travel & Hyatt Gold Passport
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: CVG
Posts: 15,301
There are very few of those rooms - so maybe they'll never assign one to Diamonds?
Oct 11, 2009 | 6:22 am
#9
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 6,417
Not even just for Diamonds though. Any old GP base member can book an award room and get a guaranteed City/Harbour King, with "a balcony overlooking Sydney Harbour". I would have thought they'd have tried to make all award rooms book into the base "Park King" (non-view) room, but that doesn't seem to be the case.