Hilton opens a brand new Embassy Suites hotel in New York

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• MitsR says:

  19 Jan19 January 06:47

  Does this Midtown Embassy Suites offer the evening drinks reception for all guests like other Embassy Suites properties??

  • Michael C says:

    19 Jan19 January 07:10

    Hi Mits – just clicked on the rooms description, and yes! Along with “free cooked-to-order b/fast”.

    Looks like a fab option for families.

    • adey says:

      19 Jan19 January 07:20

      We stayed in an Embassy Suites near Disneyland (Calif) last summer. Was pleasantly surprised, I knew nothing of the evening drinks reception (which included my favourite lager on draft – sadly no self serving).

      As others have mentioned, the chain is great for families and appears to be good value for money!

      • thehornets says:

        19 Jan19 January 11:59

        Adey – can I ask which specifies Embassy Suites? And will the rooms sleep 4 including two older children?

        Many thanks!

      • adey says:

        19 Jan19 January 16:40

        Hi Hornets… I stand corrected – I went to my email to check the address of the “Embassy Suites” and it was actually a “Homewood Suites” – still by Hilton and sounds the same sort of package.

        Our ‘suite’ had a full kitchen, living room with sofas and TV. Large bedroom with two large doubles and bathroom.

        Everything else was the same too. Free breakfast with some hot items to order, evening drinks reception. Pool, gym, games room.

        So would be fine for family of four if the children don’t mind sharing the double bed. There may have been sofa bed too. there is always roll-aways.

        Homewood Suites by Hilton Anaheim Resort – Convention Center

      • Lady London says:

        19 Jan19 January 17:27

        Just a note that on some promotions Homewood Suites are excluded from earning whatever the promotion is offering, in the small print. Similar to Accor frequently excluding IBIS Budget from promotional accruals.

      • thehornets says:

        19 Jan19 January 20:01

        Adey – thank you so much!

• Nigel says:

  19 Jan19 January 06:50

  The issue of baec tier points on qr flights is a bit misleading. We are flying qr to colombo via doha return as 4 ba flight numbers on qr run flights. We are each getting the 560 tier points. It is only if you elect the inconvenience of a middle of the night transfer in doha vs a direct ba flight that you will get more tier points.

  • Rob says:

    19 Jan19 January 07:18

    In what they is that misleading? You get more TP on Qatar because you have to change planes and it counts as extra segments.

    • JamesB says:

      19 Jan19 January 15:11

      In any case It’s only middle of the nightvfrom the regions, I suspect that can be avoided on my itineraries ex LHR.

  • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

    19 Jan19 January 09:07

    Don’t think BA flies to CMB anyway, just UL running a direct service.

    • JamesB says:

      19 Jan19 January 15:14

      Has BA cancelled CNN again, I thought the were doing it as standalone or in conjunction with Male?

      • JamesB says:

        19 Jan19 January 17:19

        *CMB

  • Polly says:

    19 Jan19 January 10:45

    Really Nigel
    Where have you been. Its constantly mentioned on here the ACTUAL BENEFIT of bothering to change at Doha is if you require TIER POINTS. plenty of other options to fly better routing on Finnair of Thai airways etc from London at marginally higher prices…
    Quite clear..not misleading at all. Many of here are on going ba silver and benefit greatly from a middle of the night or day change at Doha.
    In fact we too were looking at Colomba but the sale this time is not good enough for us.

    • JamesB says:

      19 Jan19 January 13:40

      If you ever need a one way cash fare back from Asia Polly that is a good time to do Sri Lanka. UL to UK is very competive, especially from BKK but not quitr as good as preBrexit. If you get round to it sonetime, find your fare online and then call to book as they can usually make them full flexible for not much more. UL is not QR but their a330 J is still a sound and pleasant experience, service and main meals are excellent, snack items less so. It is also a good opportunity to work the Maldives into a multicentre itinerary.

• JamesB says:

  19 Jan19 January 06:53

  That’s great Genghis, many thanks. Heading out soon but will get a look this weekend. Does it have the functionality to enter a full cash ticket for comparison? No problem if not, it should be easy to tweak to our individual needs.

  • JamesB says:

    19 Jan19 January 07:21

    You’re a star 🙂 Avios earning is great too because we can use that to attribute a value to any miles earned on any airline.

• Andy says:

  19 Jan19 January 07:00

  Thanks Ghengis. Will look later but am encouraged already. Have a great day.

• JamesB says:

  19 Jan19 January 07:06

  OT: Does anybody know at what time on a Friday Virgin East Coast releases their next batch of advance tickets? Thanks.

  • JamesB says:

    19 Jan19 January 07:28

    Thanks, jus messed up on my Virgin Red code then so I will reinstall the app again about 08:45. Btw, I got another 1000 nectar points offer for Virgin this week after many weeks at just 500 which I ignored.

    • Adam says:

      19 Jan19 January 08:08

      I’m looking for tickets late July – should I get them when the advance tickets come on sale or wait for a sale? I need Friday and Sunday tickets – the weekend tickets don’t get released much later than midweek..

    • JamesB says:

      19 Jan19 January 08:55

      @Adam, to maximise your discount you need to book the weekday ticket when it’s released 6 months in advance, and then the weekend ticket 3 months in advance. IIRC prices with a railcard of some sort booked at this time are broadly comparable to the best sale fares. Personally I take the cheap tickets when I can get them because we cannot rely on a sale for any specific dates. IME tickets on the popular trains disappear quickly so when I am in a position to book months out I do so. You can get a 20% discount code if you download the virgin red app.

    • Adam says:

      19 Jan19 January 09:16

      I’m looking for 14 tickets
      So is it best to do a booking of 8 then 4 or call the Group ticket hotline? This will also get me the groupsave discount.

      I’ll get the virgin red app – very handy – thanks. I’ll keep an eye on the site today, see if my tickets come on sale.

  • Adam says:

    19 Jan19 January 09:58

    Still got 3 weeks till mine come out – 6 July available now…

    • JamesB says:

      19 Jan19 January 12:14

      They have been releasing them a week at a time lately. Sorry, I don’t know about group bookings. However, I discovered that a railcard cannot be combined with the virgin red discount so this is likely true of any two discounts.

• Talay says:

  19 Jan19 January 07:19

  Do you think we are going to get a meaningful Etihad sale now ?

  Last year, on the back of Qatar finishing their offering, Etihad had a far more meaningful 30% off business and economy fares.

  I had LHR-BKK for £1154 which was excellent. Timing was right about now.

• Talay says:

  19 Jan19 January 07:22

  Does anyone know whether you can use the 72 hour hold option on Qatar fares taking it out of the sale window ?

  • Kevin says:

    19 Jan19 January 07:49

    I don’t see why not. They guarantee that price for the hold period don’t they? You’ve got a reservation with allocated seats, you just have to pay for it.

    I haven’t had that exact experience though so someone tell me if I’m wrong.

• JamesR says:

  19 Jan19 January 07:50

  I was on the phone to Qatar last night to book my overnight accom. When I booked there was definetly no shorter connection even in the list. I checked the next day too, both on the official site and google flights. Only one connection, over 8 hours.
  I called up and they said there’s a shorter connection so I can’t book the accommodation. I checked and they have since stuck another one in that is only 2-3 hours. I said to the guy on the phone it’s not fair if it wasn’t available initially and that I would have rather. booked the shorter connection. He’s going to call me back (today hopefully) as he had got email someone else to find out exactly when the flight was added. But I know it wasn’t on the bookings page for a fact!

  Anyone else had experience with this??

  • Polly says:

    19 Jan19 January 10:49

    Always best to snapshot those booking pages. We too were caught out but only when we got to Doha. Hadn’t checked back after we booked. Was quite annoyed with them . But had to sleep on curvy couches in a quiet area. Not bad really.

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