Hotel Du Louvre, Hyatt REVIEW - MASTER THREAD
Jul 29, 2022, 8:00 pm
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I was lucky to snag a base room on points for Chinese New Year 2023. Will be staying for three nights at 29K+29K+25K = 83K points. I guess this was before the hotel took the base rooms out of inventory. Then, successfully applied a suite upgrade cert to the reservation.
I wonder what room I would be given if I withdraw the suite upgrade, but still kept the booking for the base room?
I wonder what room I would be given if I withdraw the suite upgrade, but still kept the booking for the base room?
Jul 30, 2022, 1:01 am
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I know some still have access to Hyatt’s reimbursement schedules, and others have access to a summary of the reimbursement schedules. IIRC, premium room types get an increase in reimbursement amount over standard room types.
Jul 30, 2022, 1:47 am
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I was lucky to snag a base room on points for Chinese New Year 2023. Will be staying for three nights at 29K+29K+25K = 83K points. I guess this was before the hotel took the base rooms out of inventory. Then, successfully applied a suite upgrade cert to the reservation.
I wonder what room I would be given if I withdraw the suite upgrade, but still kept the booking for the base room?
I wonder what room I would be given if I withdraw the suite upgrade, but still kept the booking for the base room?
Jul 30, 2022, 5:42 am
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So to recap for anyone new to this thread:
- Hotel no longer selling base King/Queen rooms until ~spring 2023 due to renovation
- Hotel starts not offering any rooms for points redemption (for an undetermined short period of time prior to being noticed)
- After noticed and some "pressure" hotel starts offering rooms at points redemptions at a small premium to award chart pricing (but in line with price differential if paying cash)
- In the ~late spring, when base rooms are available for sale again, they are also available back at the standard Hyatt award chart rate
- Net-net, there's a short-term workaround that would seem to be a fair compromise to both hotel (due to a large # of rooms knocked out for sale, they have to offer on points but they get a premium) and guests (redemptions now available, still at a fair 1.5 CPP up to better 2 CPP) for a View room (debate how much better these are, but they do sell for a higher rate)
Jul 30, 2022, 7:34 am
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This still sounds suspicious to me. What kind of renovation takes only standard rooms out? And why would such a limited scope renovation take nearly a year?
Jul 30, 2022, 9:36 am
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I hear you and it’s weird. However they definitely are back on sale next spring so I can only take them at their word there is some sort of renovation going on. Maybe a lower floor specific issue? Base rooms until repaired are higher floor View rooms that seem to go for an extra 30-40 EUR/night.
Jul 30, 2022, 10:36 am
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But these are now being coded as standard awards, just at a higher points rate. Unless someone has a view behind the curtain, we really can't know how they are being reimbursed.
This still sounds suspicious to me. What kind of renovation takes only standard rooms out? And why would such a limited scope renovation take nearly a year?
This still sounds suspicious to me. What kind of renovation takes only standard rooms out? And why would such a limited scope renovation take nearly a year?
Jul 30, 2022, 12:22 pm
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Regardless on how the property is being reimbursed, charging something that isn't even on Hyatt's Standard Award Chart is not appropriate. Either come out with a new chart with premium room redemption, or announce variable pricing, or don't offer redemption, and not this "oh there are regular rooms next year so let the renovation period slide and make an exception to charge more because we love hyatt long time..." It not even about the renovation anymore. This is no different than if the property just removes all standard rooms from redemption and just throw in some now "premium" rooms into the mix...
Jul 30, 2022, 12:45 pm
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Jul 30, 2022, 12:54 pm
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Jul 30, 2022, 12:59 pm
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If this were Marriott, the hotel would have blocked all points redemptions for 9 months, and there would be no recourse as Marriott hides contact info from us, and they wouldn’t take the guest’s side anyways as they kowtow to the owners. But hey they would have stayed true to their (soon to be gone) award chart and not come up with a nice short term solution. Winning!
Jul 30, 2022, 1:06 pm
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If this were Marriott, the hotel would have blocked all points redemptions for 9 months, and there would be no recourse as Marriott hides contact info from us, and they wouldn’t take the guest’s side anyways as they kowtow to the owners. But hey they would have stayed true to their (soon to be gone) award chart and not come up with a nice short term solution. Winning!
edit: unfortunately the ignore function on FT doesn't work so well.
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Jul 30, 2022, 1:22 pm
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