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Originally Posted by halders1
(Post 37757349)
I haven't found another thread on this, apologies if I missed one.
In the past I have used the option to pay with "points and cash" quite often, but have noticed recently that this option doesn't seem to exist much any more. It was quite handy in being able to balance points retention or use - I'd often use points for a couple of nights and pay cash for a couple of nights. Does anyone know why this has all but disappeared now? The other, using 10K points and $100 for a single night (for example), still shows up. I can't comment on the frequency but had a stay of this type at a FS Marriott in January and have another at a lower-tier hotel reserved in a few months. I'm sure it's location-specific and addresses some need of the individual hotel, such as filling rooms in an otherwise slow period.
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Originally Posted by yyzflyer
(Post 37757447)
The one type of Points & Cash rates did disappear awhile ago, that being the ability to "cherry-pick" nights from a points stay and pay cash for them. Although it didn't get much attention at the time, I really miss this option.
It takes a bit of work, but you can achieve the same result by booking your reservation as a series of individual nights mixing cash and points as appropriate. That also gives you the flexibility to change between points and cash for each night separately as rates change if needed. There are some Flyertalker's who always book this way because of the flexibility. What I don't recall is if you did this old school cash+points booking, if you still got the fifth award night free. E.g. say you had a 8 day stays, 5 points and 3 cash, was one of the points nights still free? If you did get every fifth night free for the points portion of the stay, there is no longer a way to achieve that with a mixed points plus cash reservation (unless the points portion happens to be 5 consecutive nights). YMMV.... --Jon |
Originally Posted by Jon Maiman
(Post 37759065)
It takes a bit of work, but you can achieve the same result by booking your reservation as a series of individual nights mixing cash and points as appropriate. That also gives you the flexibility to change between points and cash for each night separately as rates change if needed. There are some Flyertalker's who always book this way because of the flexibility.
What I don't recall is if you did this old school cash+points booking, if you still got the fifth award night free. E.g. say you had a 8 day stays, 5 points and 3 cash, was one of the points nights still free? If you did get every fifth night free for the points portion of the stay, there is no longer a way to achieve that with a mixed points plus cash reservation (unless the points portion happens to be 5 consecutive nights). YMMV.... --Jon I'm pretty sure one forfeited the free night in a mixed reservation, but the saving might be too good to pass up. Sometimes a $100 Sunday in the middle of multiple 40K points nights required getting out the calculator.;) |
Oh I hadn't considered this technique, but I really can't be bothered with the hassle of having multiple reservations! Thanks for the suggestion though!
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