Bits: Virgin East Coast sale, 30% Hyatt ‘buy points’ bonus, Hilton’s new price guarantee

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• Chris says:

  24 Feb24 February 15:33

  Does anyone know if buying Hyatt points is enough to keep an account active? I’m close to a big chunk expiring and this may be easier than a trip to East London or Birmingham!

• Liz says:

  24 Feb24 February 17:13

  Thanks James – I know I missed the promotion but we weren’t even planning a trip to London until 2 days ago. I was going to redeem for a night in Chicago and held our spend back on the credit card so I wouldn’t trigger the free night too soon. When we got the voucher we decided not to change our Chicago booking in the end – got a lovely 4 star hotel half price on hotels.com back in Dec so decided to not mess with that booking. So spur of the moment trip to London is now happening! We normally stay at the really basic Travelodge at Covent Garden (pre HfP days) when we go to London but even that is pricing up at almost £200 so really happy with our deal.

  • James67 says:

    24 Feb24 February 19:59

    That’s what I meant by ‘assuming’, you got the best deal at the time you could book so that’s all that matters. Interesting for me to see scale of the difference you found on hotels and hilton. I will check close in for deals at bankside and elsewhere to see if it’s worth cancelling staybridge to recover my 140k ihg points. When travelodge Waterloo was new I stayed a few times on the real cheap sale rates under £20/night and was quite happy with it, so too were various friends that normally only stay mid to high end hotels. Now that many have been recently refurbihed it is probably good time to use them again but I would never do so at their outrageous close in Saturday night rates. I spend so little time in hotel rooms that my only real concern is they are clean, the bed is firm enougb to be comfortable, and the bathroom is functional. I’ve stayed in hiltons more than once that made me wisb I was in a travelidge. Thankfully, with a whole bunch of new openings across all their brands, Hilton is now worth staying again in the UK.

• rams1981 says:

  24 Feb24 February 18:19

  OT notice the AMEX FX exchange 1000 bonus points have now posted

• BigAl says:

  24 Feb24 February 18:33

  Am currently going through a torturous process with Hilton trying to get them to honour the BRG. I provided the details of 5 websites who had a rate up to 40% cheaper than the room I purchased directly with them, on exactly the same dates and same conditions. I even took a snapshot of one of them and sent it within 24 hours to their team. The first email I received back stated their “verification team” were unable to find that price (I checked back constantly, and it’s even still up there now, 10 days later). The subsequent 5 emails I have received in response to my protestations have all simply stated that “the verification team were unable to find that rate within the permitted time”. I find it utterly criminal Hilton can boast a BRG and then be so obtuse about enforcing it. For what it’s worth I’m a platinum member. Has anyone else had similar experiences?

  • James says:

    24 Feb24 February 20:35

    Try the Hilton rep on flyertalk, or Twitter

  • xcalx says:

    25 Feb25 February 08:11

    “Has anyone else had similar experiences?”

    Last 2 Hilton bookings I made led to the price matched to the OTA (Priceline) and an extra $50 off the cost using the BRG.

• Brian says:

  24 Feb24 February 20:09

  OT – decent Marriott flash sale on right now…

• Nathan says:

  25 Feb25 February 05:53

  Something which I don’t think has ever happened before or if it has I certainly haven’t noticed! I booked the Hilton Hua Hin Thailand yesterday for the same day as was having an unexpected trip there. The rate was a points + cash rate. When I checked out this morning the rate was a fair bit cheaper (in Thai terms) than the rate quoted at time of booking. No complaints but was a bit surprised!

• James says:

  25 Feb25 February 16:05

  Off topic but if you already have HHonors Silver status then get a Hilton credit card do you just stay at silver status or are you upgraded anymore?

  • Rob says:

    25 Feb25 February 21:19

    Stay Silver

• Peter says:

  29 Feb29 February 11:45

  Just hope that your room is as advertised, they offered view of Shard for my room; no view. I initially told them I’d stay somewhere else, but they offered me dinner, and I accepted.

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