Flash Sale replacing last minute?
Mar 20, 2012, 11:21 am
#46
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: PDX
Programs: OnePass, MilesPlus, AAdvantage, SkyMiles (unfortunately), PC Plat, HH Silver, Marriott Aluminium
Posts: 739
I'm really bummed out. I was just starting to really looking forward to Thursday's to see where I might be going for my next travel break. Can't imagine they'd shut this down due to lack of interest. Maybe it was too successful?
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Mar 21, 2012, 3:17 am
#47
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Singapore
Programs: IC RA, KrisFlyer, Evergreen
Posts: 551
My guess is that's exactly what it is. It's a great promotion and probably too successful so they had to pull the plug on it. In some ways it was even better than Point Breaks (weekly instead of bi-monthly) and I'm disappointed that this was so short-lived.
Mar 21, 2012, 12:56 pm
#48
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 377
In case the Priority Club folks are reading here, I'll say that I'm also very disappointed to see this promotion gone. Even though I was not able to use it yet since I have no vacations coming up in the next two months, I still looked forward to checking the site on Thursdays and would be prepared to try to squeeze in an unplanned vacation if the right opportunity came along. I thought this program (along with Pointbreaks) put Priority Club as my clear choice for accumulating points. The "last minute" stuff was virtually useless since I can't plan a trip to many places on a few days notice.
Mar 21, 2012, 5:18 pm
#49
Join Date: Jan 2011
Programs: priority club, aeroplan, air miles
Posts: 48
I too was looking forward to Thursdays and have a trip planned in May and June going through Canada and the Us. They were just getting to the early part of May for bookings and now they have cancelled it. Hopefully the new point breaks will have some good hotels that are on our way.
Mar 21, 2012, 10:30 pm
#50
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Usually in SAN or Central Europe.
Programs: AA:EXP/1MM. Accor/Radisson:Silver; HH:Gold; ICH:Plt Amb.
Posts: 22,307
This program (now suspended) was too random to make good use of it. How can one make all of their travel arrangements in such a short time? It was only useful if you already had a trip planned for an area where one of these hotels was being offered.
Mar 22, 2012, 2:03 am
#51
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 5,041
You had a longer booking window than Last Minute...
Mar 22, 2012, 2:53 am
#52
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Singapore
Programs: IC RA, KrisFlyer, Evergreen
Posts: 551
If anything I think the Last Minute promo should've been the one scrapped and the Thursday Sale should have stayed.
Mar 22, 2012, 4:25 am
#53
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: London
Programs: Priority CLub Platinum
Posts: 104
I suppose it was like the UK 24 hour £20.12 Olympics promotion flash sale they've done the past two years in Jan, selling off rooms all over UK at most HI/HIX and some CPs. Maybe they saw the £20.12 promotion as a good thing, and wanted to try and model it across the world, but slashing the points instead of the cash price. Looking at the two offers though, the UK sale was fairly widespread in the hotels on offer, not a small select few. If they wanted more success from the new flash sale, then they need more hotels/area available.