No more IHG Rewards Club points on food and drink on Expedia stays

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• jonboy says:

  1 Jan1 January 04:56

  since I discovered the hotels.com rewards (thanks to you) I haven’t looked back.

  Hilton gold card still works at Hiltons for me too, all over the world and most recently Bangkok where I got a whopping size suite room. shame it comes to an end soon. I got the aussie visa card trick one, we need something like that again!

• Lady London says:

  1 Jan1 January 04:59

  fair enough.

  I just think fast wifi should be like electricity… available everywhere and within every room rate.

• Jason says:

  1 Jan1 January 07:08

  The free wifi at the Times Square intercontinental, was so slow, it wasn’t worth using anyway!

• Max says:

  1 Jan1 January 08:25

  Sofitel have always offered me Platinum upgrade privileges when I have booked via a third party, though not the loyalty points.

  • Jenni says:

    1 Jan1 January 10:40

    Same here, last time at T5 for a stay booked through lastminute.com got a double upgrade on the room and also a free drinks voucher for one drink for both of us staying in the room. Couldn’t really complain since i paid <£80 for the room.

• Max says:

  1 Jan1 January 08:29

  With regard to Wi-Fi, I often find a 4G data package from my supplier is cheaper and faster than hotel W-Fi packages anyway!

  • Stuart says:

    1 Jan1 January 09:14

    Same here, my last stay I just abandoned the WiFi after I tested it to be 0.4 Mbps which is barely better than dial up and I was getting 10 Mbps on my 4G. More power intensive sure but when you’re in a hotel room it really doesn’t matter that much.

    I would be disappointed to loose WiFi (even slow WiFi) at a foreign hotel though.

    • Jason says:

      1 Jan1 January 10:09

      Lady London’s comment above is spot on, wifi is a utility and should be treated like one.
      It’s frustrating when a hotel wants to charge you for something virtually everywhere in the western world takes for granted.

  • Fenny says:

    1 Jan1 January 10:24

    I think I may start asking hotels that don’t offer free wifi where the nearest McDeadthings is. If they ask why, I shall say it’s so I can use the free wifi that I would expect to get in the hotel.

    • Nick says:

      1 Jan1 January 18:12

      Yes, I.,m sure the. 24year old at the checkout in Budapest or Bangkok would be devastated to hear that 🙂

      • Fenny says:

        1 Jan1 January 19:25

        Probably more so than the 35 yr old on reception at Milan. But I’m more likely to be in Milan than Bangkok.

• Andrew says:

  1 Jan1 January 13:52

  Of course it would be much easier if the chains simply had the same price as the discounters… or didn’t find every excuse under the sun to refuse the “BEST RATE GUARANTEE”

  • Fenny says:

    1 Jan1 January 19:27

    Yes, I got exactly the same offer via Bookings.com as the room I’d booked via Best Western’s site at at least 20% less. When I challenged their guarantee, they said it didn’t refer to third party sites. So I cancelled and booked elsewhere. Still got free wifi and breakfast, but no points.

• N says:

  1 Jan1 January 15:12

  The hotel only lose if you are savvy enough to book elsewhere. Plus if they dropped the headline rate they’d be at risk of entering a price war with the OTAs

• DJ says:

  1 Jan1 January 17:20

  I have an upcoming Park Hyatt stay, booked through Expedia as it was approx 25% cheaper than the best rate on the Hyatt website. The Expedia confirmation email gives me an Expedia itinerary number as well as the Hyatt reservation number, which means I can access my reservation directly on the Hyatt website too. Here, I can enter my Hyatt Gold Passport number (not an option on Expedia), make special requests… potentially even delete the travel agent codes from the reservation which marks it as an Expedia booking. Haven’t tried any of this for fear of voiding the booking, but does anyone have any experience re: accessing / changing Expedia bookings directly through hotel sites? And with Hyatt in particular?

  • Alan says:

    1 Jan1 January 17:24

    From what I’ve heard Hyatt are the best of all the chains at honouring benefits/points on third party stays, not sure if that’s changed recently at all.

    • Max says:

      1 Jan1 January 22:46

      Hyatt have never awarded me points in recent times when I have booked the room through a third party.

      • Alan says:

        1 Jan1 January 22:50

        Ahh OK – I’ve not stayed with them for a while myself, this may have been ‘enhanced’ away at most properties now, they certainly used to offer credit, but that was perhaps 2011! They do honour elite benefits though I believe.

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