Aman 20% gift card purchase promo
Jul 19, 2020, 7:47 am
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Jul 22, 2020, 7:22 am
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Aman has totally screwed this up, in my opinion. The "headline" essentially said they were selling gift cards at 20% off — and if that had been the case, the answer would have been "yes." But in practice, it doesn't apply at all Amanresorts and the T&C's are vague. Best bet is to ask your Virtuoso travel advisor to contact the resort on your behalf and see if she/he can get 20% off the Virtuoso rate through this "gift card" promotion.
Jul 22, 2020, 8:57 am
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Aman has totally screwed this up, in my opinion. The "headline" essentially said they were selling gift cards at 20% off — and if that had been the case, the answer would have been "yes." But in practice, it doesn't apply at all Amanresorts and the T&C's are vague. Best bet is to ask your Virtuoso travel advisor to contact the resort on your behalf and see if she/he can get 20% off the Virtuoso rate through this "gift card" promotion.
Jul 22, 2020, 9:31 am
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Jul 22, 2020, 10:20 am
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+1 on what DavidO has said.
Aman really didn't work this out smoothly and especially with their partners on this. I've had clients try to go this route, just today, trying to book Aman Venice and it was a no go. Was excluded from the bonus. I ended up just booking them per usual through my contacts and upgraded them at booking (the upgrade alone was a 37% value, i.e. less than the room was selling for).
Along with the Gift Cards, there are lots of languages that makes it worrisome, which has been pointed out above.
It's not stackable with Virtuoso but many TAs here normally gets more than 20% value on the bookings anyway and you won't be required to fork up the cash in advance and be on a timeline to spend it across a condensed number of Amans.
Aman really didn't work this out smoothly and especially with their partners on this. I've had clients try to go this route, just today, trying to book Aman Venice and it was a no go. Was excluded from the bonus. I ended up just booking them per usual through my contacts and upgraded them at booking (the upgrade alone was a 37% value, i.e. less than the room was selling for).
Along with the Gift Cards, there are lots of languages that makes it worrisome, which has been pointed out above.
It's not stackable with Virtuoso but many TAs here normally gets more than 20% value on the bookings anyway and you won't be required to fork up the cash in advance and be on a timeline to spend it across a condensed number of Amans.
Last edited by BESVISOR; Jul 22, 2020 at 10:28 am