Bits: Hilton losing four car rental partners, get another 500 free Miles & More miles

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• PAL says:

  8 Aug8 August 14:52

  Hilton related – diamond members (all of us right!) has anyone had experience of booking say a 3 night stay first night paid suite, next 2 nights redemption or paid basic room. Would they keep you or make you move?

  • johnny_c-l says:

    8 Aug8 August 15:07

    It depends on the property, I’ve been allowed to stay in the same room before, plus have had an occasion when I was moved. However this was a deluxe/standard combination, not with a suite.

    If you want to be sure, there’s no harm in getting in touch with the hotel to arrange beforehand (or at least it puts you top of the list for keeping a nice room).

  • Gareth says:

    8 Aug8 August 16:17

    I had two nights recently, first night my booking diamond member upgraded to junior suite and second night was the wife’s free Hilton night from barclaycard. Lady on front desk said she put the bookings together and we could just stay where we were. Conrad London.

• h1tvd says:

  8 Aug8 August 17:06

  O/T I have a booking for New York for a brand new Hilton hotel which was scheduled to be open 1 day before my booking. It is the HGI NYC Financial Center/Manhattan Downtown. Hilton website has changed and is now only accepting bookings one month after I am due to stay. I have a feeling the hotel is not going to be open in time for my booking. I have a non refundable paid booking for 3 nights. I am going to contact Hilton as I don’t want to arrive not knowing whats happening and potentially being moved to a cra**y hotel. What’s the best way to proceed if they come back and say it won’t be open in time? I don’t really want a refund, rates are pretty high just now if I need to rebook as it’s only 3 weeks until I go. I am Hilton Diamond if that helps……

  • Rob says:

    8 Aug8 August 18:15

    History shows you get moved to another hotel. As a Diamond you should be ok. This may be preferable to going to an unfinished hotel with no restaurant yet open, only half rooms done, untrained staff etc.

    • h1tvd says:

      8 Aug8 August 18:20

      just phoned hilton, they refused to change the hotel, just refunded the prepaid rate

      • Nick says:

        8 Aug8 August 18:36

        … because you insisted it be done on your timescale. If you’d waited till they’d put a policy in place there’s a decent chance you’d have been moved to a different hotel instead.

        • Tracy says:

          8 Aug8 August 22:37

          Probably……

• AndyGWP says:

  8 Aug8 August 18:32

  OT:
  Possibly buried in comments elsewhere, but BA flights to Tennessee are now confirmed for May 2018 onwards (according to their Instagram)

• Cate says:

  8 Aug8 August 18:51

  The Hilton deal is a loss for us, but the AMEX 2MR per £1 spent with airlines will make up for it as I can convert 2MR points to four Hilton points in the current offer for car hire or, 3MR points if I hire through AMEX online travel = nine points per £1……I think…. Actually if I buy with our Barclays Hilton card I should get another 2 points per pound.

  • Genghis says:

    8 Aug8 August 19:20

    I think you might have got a bit too excited. Don’t you need to use Amex Gold to pay for the car hire, thereby getting the 3MRs/£ and hence cannot use Hilton Barclaycard?

    • Cate says:

      8 Aug8 August 19:49

      LoL!! It’s a fair cop Ghengis 🙂

• Alex W says:

  8 Aug8 August 23:01

  I’ve done various enterprise rentals with work and not credited these anywhere – Hilton will do nicely, unless theres a better option?

  Trouble is I’ve scoured the Hilton website and can’t find how to credit Enterprise rentals – any tips on how to do this?

• ZeroHedge says:

  9 Aug9 August 15:09

  So I downloaded the app and the 500 points credited within seconds…

  I also signed up for the newsletter, clicked the link in my email, and got a confirmation email in return. 2 hours later, still no sign of the 2nd 500 miles…

  Anyone else having trouble ?

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