How to book a low cost ‘day room’ at a Hilton hotel

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• Andrew says:

  24 Jun24 June 04:06

  Thanks. Nice reminder. I forgot they did these. I used twice during pandemic.

• John says:

  24 Jun24 June 04:13

  The Doubletree in Antalya refused to guarantee me a late checkout (despite being diamond – the cheek!). So, I booked one of these to keep my room until 1800. It was stupidly expensive but way better than milling about in the lobby for 4+ hours.

• His Holyness says:

  24 Jun24 June 04:29

  Workspaces ended a long time ago and most properties have reined in day-rates to be prohibitively expensive.

  • Blenz101 says:

    24 Jun24 June 06:49

    I think that’s a function of staffing shortages in the UK being unable to turn the rooms around and maximise their assets.

    Here in Dubai I’ve been able to pick up rooms all year long for under 100 Dhs / £20. The quality is obviously superior in terms of room size and facilities. As a diamond I get generally upgraded to a suite, receive a welcome gift to the room, offered to join for breakfast and allowed to use the lounges. Day room gets full run of the pool (even the most basic Hampton has this), free parking, well equipped gym etc.

    The rooms always post as qualifying including myway bonus and currently 2k extra per stay.

    Whilst London may be tricky if you are travelling and want to try out some other properties or not UK based this is still a fanatic proposition.

    • His Holyness says:

      24 Jun24 June 09:08

      It’s not about staffing costs, the rooms are sold much better. Workspaces only came about because they were empty.

      • Blenz101 says:

        25 Jun25 June 07:23

        The rooms remain empty until people turn up and check in. Occupancy is high in Dubai as it is London but it isn’t at 100% all of the time. Check any Hilton in either city and they will have a room for sale.

        Having a full complement of experienced housekeeping staff ready and able to tune day use rooms into overnight accommodation quickly after 5pm holds back hotels in London from selling them.

• Ste says:

  24 Jun24 June 04:47

  “Remember that you will earn elite night credit on these bookings.”, is this right, none of my Hilton day room rates credited as a elite night?

  • John says:

    24 Jun24 June 05:48

    They should do now but sometimes don’t post automatically. Also if a day stay overlaps with a night stay (at any other Hilton) the later one is likely to not credit automatically

    • Ste says:

      24 Jun24 June 06:02

      Thanks John, I will follow up with the respective properties.

• S says:

  24 Jun24 June 08:35

  £600 a day at the WA Caledonian, anyone? 😄

  • BJ says:

    24 Jun24 June 09:48

    With Edinburgh City Council banning certain entertainment venues I guess the WA decided to cash in on increasing demand for short term room rentals.

• GeoffreyB says:

  24 Jun24 June 10:34

  “This allows you to book a hotel room for the working day”

  Working day. Cough cough

  • Tom says:

    24 Jun24 June 18:58

    I suppose it depends what you do for work exactly…

• Jenny says:

  25 Jun25 June 13:19

  I would settle for Hilton having their rooms ready for overnight stays from the time they advertise. Had to wait over an hour beyond the official check in time yesterday, which was hardly ideal when I had just travelled for the past 21h. Offering day rooms will surely only make this more common unless they can get more housekeeping staff.

• Ollie says:

  25 Jun25 June 16:20

  Personally, I don’t see the attraction of working from a hotel room. It’s too isolating, eerie and often not as bright as a dedicated workspace. Coupled with the bed being a few steps away, I always feel sleepy when attempting to work there. I would also have thought that the traditional benefit of having a private office – being able to invite clients/colleagues in for a meeting – might also not be appropriate if you attempted to do this in a hotel room!
  Much better to get a co-working membership for £80-200 a month which allows global/regional access and has the proper amenities and an atmosphere of work. If you really need a private office all day then they will usually let you use one of the empty meeting rooms. For shorter calls they all have soundproof booths.

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