Waldorf-Astoria Syon Park to become a Hilton (or, how to have a 5-star child-friendly break for £90)

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• nogoingback says:

  17 Feb17 February 08:02

  Ooh exciting! Thanks. Will the £90 rate room sleep 2 adults and 2 children (6 and 3)? We normally take our own travel cot for the 3 year old…

  • Raffles says:

    17 Feb17 February 08:59

    It should be OK, although we were always upgraded to the rooms overlooking the conservatory which are a little bigger. If the room description says Max 3 People then you would be OK. Otherwise it depends if fire restrictions limit the number per room. They have decent cots, by the way, no need to take one!

• whiskerxx says:

  17 Feb17 February 09:31

  Forgive me, but I rolled around laughing at the thought that “Londoners” consider Brentford a suitable destination for a “weekend away”!
  It must be about halfway to Heathrow from Kensington. 8 miles?
  If I didn’t know better, I’d suggest you should get out more!!! 🙂

  (always enjoy the blog, by the way)

  • Raffles says:

    17 Feb17 February 09:39

    Yes, about right! But I consider myself lucky I can do this! It would make no difference to the trip if it had required a 3 hour drive, except the kids would have gone mad. And we don’t even take a car here, we get a cab.

    If the InterContinental on Park Lane – which is walkable from my house – had a pool and gave free breakfast, I would probably be burning my PC points and staying there on the odd weekend as well!

    My kids spend enough time on planes as it is without making them endure even more travelling!

• Jason says:

  17 Feb17 February 11:11

  How much does your local pool cost??

• Rich Spencer says:

  17 Feb17 February 11:47

  Interesting news- I was thinking of using the Hilton Visa card free night voucher at Syon Park- not that this is a reason not to do so any more, however I would hope to get more than £90 worth of value out of it.

  Not sure if it’s worth a separate thread but but would it be worthwhile detailing the “best” ways of redeeming vouchers such as this highlighting a few hotels that offer best value- could also be useful for things like the Intercontinental £20.12 offer where I stumbled across the Crowne Plaza Chipping Norton which seemed to be a good choice.

• pauldb says:

  17 Feb17 February 18:28

  I’ve also burned points to stay here, and at £90 will be doing so again. My needs are reverse: a weekend trip to London with free parking and a really nice pool. The restaurant was also excellent but I guess that may be affected by the change; on the other hand the free breakfast is a nice offset.

  It’s not right if you just want to visit central London, but we drove in after the CC hours for a show and for dinner, and drove to Westfield so for a weekend away in the south it has a lot of appeal. The grounds are great too, and massive: we spent an hour looking round before going to Kew, and I’m not sure it was worth going to Kew (depending on the season).

• Raffles says:

  18 Feb18 February 11:33

  If you were looking to book this, there is a rate on some days called Best of Waldorf Astoria which has a £50 per night credit against food etc. The rate itself is more than the Advance Purchase rate, but it is cancellable. If you knew you would definitely spend the £50 per night in the hotel then it is effectively £90 with no cancel penalty.

• trickster says:

  18 Feb18 February 20:27

  I can only see the £90 rate on the night you suggest by doing a booking for 2 adults, no kids. Is this what you did too?

  On previous stays with our little one in Marriott or IC properties, I’ve normally booked for 2 adults only, and asked for a travel cot in notes. However, I think I’d need the booking to include a child as he’s now in a bed.

  • Raffles says:

    18 Feb18 February 20:39

    I can’t remember how we did it now. I think, because we had Hilton Gold status, we booked without putting a kid in knowing they would upgrade us to the larger room that does allow a kid OK, and put in the notes we needed a rollaway bed.

    That said, there is only 3 sq metres of difference between the rooms which is hardly a lot!

    If you don’t have Hilton status then you might need to call them to check the situation will getting a rollaway in the basic room.

    • Trickster says:

      18 Feb18 February 23:26

      Thanks

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