Base room points vs paying cash?
I am a little confused. I was looking at booking a room for 5 nights in May. For points it is 310,000 for a wonderful beach oasis and 310,000 + $2,250 for an upgrade to a spectacular overwater villa (or 760,000 points), which is the lowest points cost for an overwater villa. When I look at cash bookings, the fabulous overwater villa is showing as the lowest price option at $638 prepaid. Am I missing something or why would I chose to book the overwater villa with points when the overwater villa would only cost me $940 extra plus I would save 310,000 points and earn points on the cash paid room? Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
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Originally Posted by tylerc
(Post 31888940)
If you pm me your email address I can send you menus. Alternatively, you can contact reservations at the hotel and they will gladly send you PDF copies of everything.
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Originally Posted by sjmoss23
(Post 31890854)
I am a little confused. I was looking at booking a room for 5 nights in May. For points it is 310,000 for a wonderful beach oasis and 310,000 + $2,250 for an upgrade to a spectacular overwater villa (or 760,000 points), which is the lowest points cost for an overwater villa. When I look at cash bookings, the fabulous overwater villa is showing as the lowest price option at $638 prepaid. Am I missing something or why would I chose to book the overwater villa with points when the overwater villa would only cost me $940 extra plus I would save 310,000 points and earn points on the cash paid room? Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
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Checked-in today, upgrade to spectacular OW. Till now very impressed!!!
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Originally Posted by TravelerIT
(Post 31895876)
Checked-in today, upgrade to spectacular OW. Till now very impressed!!! ������
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No...first stay ever in Maldives!
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Originally Posted by sjmoss23
(Post 31890854)
I am a little confused. I was looking at booking a room for 5 nights in May. For points it is 310,000 for a wonderful beach oasis and 310,000 + $2,250 for an upgrade to a spectacular overwater villa (or 760,000 points), which is the lowest points cost for an overwater villa. When I look at cash bookings, the fabulous overwater villa is showing as the lowest price option at $638 prepaid. Am I missing something or why would I chose to book the overwater villa with points when the overwater villa would only cost me $940 extra plus I would save 310,000 points and earn points on the cash paid room? Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
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Originally Posted by iazflyer
(Post 31906422)
Im going through the same exercise now. I’m not sure what the difference is between the two OW suites, other than location and the fact that Spectacular is $500 more than the Fabulous. But, does your upgrade fee include tax and the resort fee?? It might, whereas the $638 prepaid rate may not.
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Originally Posted by bgriff
(Post 31894435)
$638 per night is definitely on the very low side for a cash rate for an overwater villa at this hotel, and any hotel will look bad on points when it happens to be a low cash rate set of dates. If you have decided you want the overwater villa no matter what, that cash rate looks appealing, although you have to weigh for yourself the costs of the nonrefundable rate. Also make sure you click through and understand what additional taxes and fees may come along with each rate (the seaplane will be the biggest and will apply to both cash or points rates, but not sure if the $638 includes all taxes and everything).
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Checked in today - upgrades available $300/nt but was not offered one. I thought gold got upgraded if there was one available?
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Originally Posted by iazflyer
(Post 31911172)
I just checked with the hotel. The Spectacular OWV has a lagoon view and is ~$500 more than the Fabulous OWV, which has an identical floor plan, but views the ocean instead. Interestingly, the Fabulous is roughly the same cash rate as the Beach villa, however you can’t book the Fabulous with points. Further, you can’t upgrade from the Beach Villa to the Fabulous with a cash supplement. You can only upgrade from the Beach Villa to the Spectacular OWV for a ~$500 cash supplement.
As for the differences in what you're able to book and how much it costs, it sounds like they may be trying to play games with what they offer on points and how they extract cash copays out of points bookings, but who knows. This property has changed what you can book on points and how quite a few times over the past ~18 months with the transition to Bonvoy and the ways they've made the changes haven't always made a lot of sense. |
Originally Posted by Adriano Viterbo
(Post 31911573)
Checked in today - upgrades available $300/nt but was not offered one. I thought gold got upgraded if there was one available?
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Originally Posted by bgriff
(Post 31912624)
At "normal" hotels golds are offered a limited upgrade, like to a higher floor or better view, but not usually bigger upgrades like to a suite. At this hotel all the properties are suites already and the steps up beyond that are fairly big, so I wouldn't necessarily expect any upgrades for a Gold member here. Officially, as an all-suite hotel, they don't need to give any upgrades to any elites, though there have been some data points of Platinums and above getting moved up at check-in.
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Anyone here over the past week? Based on Instagram stories it looked the underground nightclub was open?
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Originally Posted by DenFlyer23
(Post 31997692)
Anyone here over the past week? Based on Instagram stories it looked the underground nightclub was open?
Has the club been closed? I didn't see any mention of 15 Below even existing on their website when browsing the other day... |
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