Matches to titanium from Globalist
 

Just adding a data point, it was an easy match from Hyatt globalist to Titanium. Submitted an email and received a response one business day later

Now that it is easy to book Choice Preferred hotels online (thanks to frequentmiler for the directions) I matched to iprefer from Hyatt globalist. They gave me iPrefer Titanium. I'm booking some hotels in Switzerland using Choice points- not sure what to expect for on-property perks if any. The points default to smallest room.

Hi, just had my first three Preferred stays. Hotel Middle Eight, Virgin NY and Hotel Sans Souci. Middle Eight and Sans Souci supposedly 5 star, but in reality I felt no more than 4 star. No upgrades, discounted breakfast at Middle Eight and free at Sans Souci.

Is everyone's experience the same as mine regarding 4 star vs. 5 star? Are there "real" luxury hotels in the portfolio? I am trying new groups since I am Lifetime Bonvoy Titanium, but hesitating now because of the less than lux experiences... Would love your thoughts.

Enjoy complimentary Titanium status with Preferred Hotels & Resorts

Join I Prefer, the loyalty program for Preferred Hotels & Resorts and you’ll receive Titanium status! What’s more, when booking a Preferred Hotel & Resort property through HotelSavers, you can immediately enjoy your new Titanium status benefits like complimentary food & beverage offerings, early check in/late check out, room upgrades, and other exciting perks! Enroll here!

From Aeroplan- I have Preferred Hotels account but would not update to Titanium. HOWEVER- WHEN I JOINED AGAIN- it gave me titantium.
Maybe someone else can use. Using link it will put in a code.

I think it's a little bit of a mixed bag like it's always the case with these "umbrellas". Hotel stays in Stockholm and Boston where underwhelming but the Royal Park hotel in Tokyo was excellent and truly 5-star.
My biggest pet peeve with the program is that none of the hotels seem to be aware of the program rules. I'm titanium but I've never had an upgrade, only once a welcome amenity, and I had to ask for the complimentary F&B offering each and every time.

Fullerton Ocean Park HK
 

Stayed here as Titanium for few days

Hotel was very full

Check In: suggest to do precheckin where you can see if you can get upgrade during precheckin (i did not have any upgrade). Otherwise the queue to check in can take 1 hour at least

Room: view is fantastic and beautiful with the sea view

Gym: very adequate, not big but not small either

Breakfast: very good variety of food, really recommend. Lunch and dinner also great. Beware that you need to book a slot for breakfast because of crowd

Titanium benefit:
1. no room upgrade given
2. Late checkout only given 1 hour (normal checkout is 11 am .... so late checkout 1 hour is like...normal checkout???)
3. 10% f&b discount
4. welcome amenity was fantastic, the most complete welcome amenity i have ever received
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Room view
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Recent experiences
 

Any recent experiences with specific hotels that actually acknowledge iPrefer status? Looking at booking something in Japan and other places.

How was your experience at the Royal overall in terms of benefits and facilities? Did you end up getting any comped breakfast after you asked for the F&B offering or what did you end up receiving for it?

I'm planning to stay at the same property next weekend. Do they provide free breakfast for Titanium members? Do they have a lounge?

It seems that it's very difficult to find points availability on the Preferred Hotels website, only a handful of hotels out of the hundred of properties show up as available. Seems that even booking through choice hotels have more points availability than I Prefer, which doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. Has anyone had experiences with booking Preferred Hotels with I Prefer points not choice hotels points?

I've been playing around with the site a lot to try to figure it out, and feel like I should be close, but can't quite get there. Regardless, there are many properties that offer points + cash rates. Even these rates offer decent value for points, but it's only defraying about 25% of the cash cost of the stay, so you're still going to be paying a lot of cash. There's definitely something to do with the Corporate Codes IPPOINTS and IPRNP: IPPOINTS is the code that the site uses to search for 100% points availability, and IPRNP is the code it uses to search for "Rewards Night Plus", which is their name for points + cash. I was playing around with substituting this into links to hotels that weren't showing up with just points availability and thought I was able to get one to show points availability, but I can't seem to replicate it now. Feels like their site is janky but maybe people end up figuring out how to book some more properties over time?

Are there any sample hotels/dates that allow a straight points redemption?

Why do only points+cash show up? Do you need sufficient points balance for a straight points booking or is there just no availability, seemingly ever?

There are hotels that allow a straight points redemption, but they are scarce. I have found a total of 6 hotels that have points availability.

What an absurd program.
Which hotels?

Could someone elaborate what the "Complimentary Food & Beverage Offering" is for Titanium level members?