St. Regis Maldives Vommuli Resort [Master Thread]
Aug 18, 2018, 10:40 am
#976
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 787
I'm content to try the garden villa. Stayed a few weeks after opening in OWV, and it was nice, but garden villas are really nice as well. I found with OWV I didn't really use the water access, so I'm not too concerned about missing out on that!
Aug 18, 2018, 10:54 am
#977
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 40
Note that this was working earlier this morning, but now I am no longer able to get it to show that it is unavailable to be booked by points for any date range (including christmas/new years). So I'm not sure what happened here, but maybe their backend systems are not working exactly as planned. Are you still able to see it as unavailable for a specific date range?
Aug 18, 2018, 10:58 am
#978
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Dubai
Programs: SPG 100 Ambassador, LH M&M Senator, Skywards Silver
Posts: 250
Note that this was working earlier this morning, but now I am no longer able to get it to show that it is unavailable to be booked by points for any date range (including christmas/new years). So I'm not sure what happened here, but maybe their backend systems are not working exactly as planned. Are you still able to see it as unavailable for a specific date range?
Aug 18, 2018, 11:00 am
#979
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 40
That's strange. It shows up as 60000 points/night for me, and when I click through to starwoodhotels.com it shows the Garden Villa as being available. Very odd.
Aug 18, 2018, 11:12 am
#980
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: BC, Canada
Programs: Marriott LTP
Posts: 138
Is there any information that supports our ability to convert a paid booking into a points booking? Pretty sure that this was never supported on SPG.com. Was this historically possible on Marriott.com?
Aug 18, 2018, 1:16 pm
#982
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Austin, TX
Programs: AA Plat Pro, Marriott Ambassador, Hyatt Globalist, United Platinum
Posts: 24
Aug 18, 2018, 1:47 pm
#983
Join Date: Jun 2017
Posts: 114
I think the rep I was speaking to was confused. She said she checked the whole year and saw no availability and thought it was all sold out. She probably didn't realize nothing was released yet.
Aug 19, 2018, 1:07 am
#985
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: +61
Programs: SQ*PPS, QF-WP1 & LTG, VA-Gold, Marriott*LTT, Hilton*Gold, Accor*Platinum
Posts: 5,735
I saw availability for 60k points a night in June into a Garden Water Suite.
The dates I'm looking for in November have a Garden Water Suite available ... but not points available. Checked on website, called-in, same deal
So seems like it's not based just on room type...
The dates I'm looking for in November have a Garden Water Suite available ... but not points available. Checked on website, called-in, same deal
So seems like it's not based just on room type...
Aug 19, 2018, 1:21 am
#986
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Dubai
Programs: SPG 100 Ambassador, LH M&M Senator, Skywards Silver
Posts: 250
Aug 19, 2018, 3:37 am
#987
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Homeless
Programs: Hyatt Glob; Hilton Dia; Marriott AMB; Accor Dia; IHG Dia Amb; GHA Tit
Posts: 4,837
My experience is rather like @porkie. Even though I see on the first page 60k pts per night next to Sheraton and next to St.Regis, once I click on "show rates" next to St.Regis, on the next page (old style SPG) the only options are cash. No points.
I checked a few dates in June, no points.
Aug 19, 2018, 4:40 am
#988
Join Date: Nov 2008
Programs: SPG-Plat, Hilton-Diamond, Club Carlson-Silver, Cathay-Diamond, Virgin-Gold
Posts: 2,183
Do you mean that you had a link on the SPG page where you could have actually booked it for 60k pts?
My experience is rather like @porkie. Even though I see on the first page 60k pts per night next to Sheraton and next to St.Regis, once I click on "show rates" next to St.Regis, on the next page (old style SPG) the only options are cash. No points.
I checked a few dates in June, no points.
My experience is rather like @porkie. Even though I see on the first page 60k pts per night next to Sheraton and next to St.Regis, once I click on "show rates" next to St.Regis, on the next page (old style SPG) the only options are cash. No points.
I checked a few dates in June, no points.
Aug 19, 2018, 6:18 am
#989
Join Date: Jan 2013
Programs: MR Platinum, QRPC Platinum
Posts: 97
So seems like the leaked T&C were right and the StR is bookable on points but the W is not. Additionally only garden villa is bookable on points and there are just 4 of those in the resort.
I'd recommend booking those with cash as guest right now and then adding SPG number & converting booking to points once systems are live. Better act fast as I can see the availability quickly vanishing for any 5-nights period.
I'd recommend booking those with cash as guest right now and then adding SPG number & converting booking to points once systems are live. Better act fast as I can see the availability quickly vanishing for any 5-nights period.
I talked with SPG Hotline, for the 60.000 points you will get only a garden villa.
Do you mean that you had a link on the SPG page where you could have actually booked it for 60k pts?
My experience is rather like @porkie. Even though I see on the first page 60k pts per night next to Sheraton and next to St.Regis, once I click on "show rates" next to St.Regis, on the next page (old style SPG) the only options are cash. No points.
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My experience is rather like @porkie. Even though I see on the first page 60k pts per night next to Sheraton and next to St.Regis, once I click on "show rates" next to St.Regis, on the next page (old style SPG) the only options are cash. No points.
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Aug 19, 2018, 6:29 am
#990
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: In the air
Programs: Occasional RTW club
Posts: 6,924
The Garden Villa is honestly not that bad. If you've never had an OWV experience, ok, you need to get that checked off your list. But having stayed in the OWVs, they're (comparatively) more inconvenient, and especially if you're with kids or something, the OWVs are just pure novelty. The Garden Villas, at least at the StR (note, that IC Thalasso / Bora Bora is different: the garden villas there are so bad that they couldn't justify handing them out anymore), are actually rather nice, so I would not hesitate to book them.