InterContinental New York Times Square adds a ‘resort fee’

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• Sandgrounder says:

  10 May10 May 04:29

  I stayed in the Indigo Leicester Square at the beginning of April. From a room size point of view, the value wasn’t great I suppose. However, having a balcony overlooking Leicester Square was quite a novelty, if a little bit noisy.

• David says:

  10 May10 May 04:54

  Seinfeld’s diner is called Monks on the show, and Tom’s in real life. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that” “No soup for you!”

  • Michael Jennings says:

    10 May10 May 10:15

    It’s on the Upper West Side though – 112th and Broadway – not very close to Times Square. The restaurant that Suzanne Vega is singing about in “Tom’s Diner” is the same restaurant, which makes the name easier to remember.

• Ken says:

  10 May10 May 06:14

  What about tier points? Can you earn BA tier points if you book through the Vueling website?

  • Rob says:

    10 May10 May 07:19

    No.

• TripRep says:

  10 May10 May 06:15

  Didn’t Vueling also fly from Newcastle? Guess they must have pulled that route.

  • Stuart says:

    10 May10 May 12:26

    Dropped before it started really. There was very little publicity about it and EasyJet already had the route established. Probably a bad move from them to try and compete

• C F Frost says:

  10 May10 May 06:38

  OT. Given the recent PRG conversion from charge to credit, might there be any change to the maxim of a maximum of 2 credit cards and 2 charge cards being held simultaneously? Presumably there are many of us who now hold 3 credits by virtue of the recent change – but for new applications? Apologies if have missed elsewhere in comments.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    10 May10 May 07:19

    Existing charge card customers stay on the charge card. Only new customers will get the credit version.

    The 2 charge 2 credit card rule isn’t really enforced. If you were rejected possibly you could offer up the credit limit on your existing cards in exchange for the same limit on a gold credit? Overall exposure for Amex is the same.

    • JP says:

      10 May10 May 08:29

      That rule hasn’t been used for years by Amex. I was hit with it over 5 years ago once. I have had way more than that many times in the last few years at the same time.

      • Lumma says:

        10 May10 May 09:44

        Can confirm that I’ve just gotten the new Gold credit card despite having two other AMEX credit cards.

        What I don’t understand is their eligibility checker. They gave me a 5/10 score for being accepted for the Gold, but the scores for the other cards didn’t seem to make any sense; 9/10 for platinum, green, basic and BA premium, 6/10 for BA blue and SPG and just 3/10 for nectar.

• Boi says:

  10 May10 May 06:53

  OT re platinum travel insurance:
  1. Do I need to book all on the platinum card to be covered: flights, car and hotels?
  2. Am I right in thinking if I get my sister a supplementary card she and my family will all be covered?
  3. If I book flights, car and hotels on PRG then upgrade it to platinum will cover kick in or do I wait for upgrade before booking?

  • Rob says:

    10 May10 May 07:18

    Full cover requires you to pay with any personal Amex card. Big stuff eg medical is covered regardless.

    • Gin and Tonic Please says:

      10 May10 May 09:28

      Not quite *any* personal Amex card – needs to be issued by Amex themselves, so Lloyds/MBNA/etc don’t count.

    • Tom says:

      10 May10 May 09:44

      Related to this, I am going away with friends. They have booked and paid for the hotel. I have paid for my flights with my Amex. Am I covered?

      • Rob says:

        10 May10 May 13:51

        You are not covered for tiny stuff in the hotel (is there anything under this category?). You are covered for tiny stuff, eg delayed departure compensation, for the flight. Big stuff is covered regardless.

  • Tom Cook says:

    10 May10 May 10:15

    I always wonder about this – book and pay on the BAPP I presume that means I’m covered with my Plat?

    • TGLoyalty says:

      10 May10 May 19:19

      Yep

      Any AMEX issued card

• Robert says:

  10 May10 May 07:14

  Hate these “resort fees” that are now being added to most hotel chains in NYC. Up until recently this was just a Vegas thing.

  CP Times Square added this a while ago (at least a year now) and to be fair, you get better value out of it at the IC.

  • Matt says:

    10 May10 May 07:32

    I’m staying at the IC Barclay in 2 weeks for 3 nights. Fingers crossed they don’t introduce the fees before then. However if they are introduced, does anyone know what my rights are if the fees didn’t exist at time of booking?

    • John says:

      10 May10 May 07:42

      You shouldn’t have to pay anything that wasn’t part of the agreement when you booked

• Tom1 says:

  10 May10 May 07:36

  On a similar note to resort fees….

  Hilton Lake Como is charging to use sunbeds by the pool….

  Price: 24 Euros per sunbed per day (if you purchase it up on check in)
  29 Euros per sunbed per day
  44 Euros per person per day Sunbed on the Terrazza + entrance at the Spa
  50 Euro for circular bed ( 2 people) per day

  So using the rooftop pool is free (the indoor pool in the shows us chargeable).
  These fees aren’t listed on the website anywhere.

  When a family room is 300eur+, it’s then another 90 EUR per day for three sunbeds!

  • Alex W says:

    10 May10 May 07:57

    Outrageous. I’d be bringing a sun bed as part of my baggage allowance. Covered in cobwebs and snails from the shed. See how the hotel likes that!

  • Anna says:

    10 May10 May 08:10

    Utterly ridiculous. Own towels and inflatable lilos are the future (and the lilo doubles up as a great pool/sea toy).

  • Anna says:

    10 May10 May 08:59

    Someone ought to compile a directory of hotels which don’t impose these kind of charges and hopefully they would get enough extra business to make the rip-off merchants think again.

  • Graham Walsh says:

    10 May10 May 08:59

    Wow. That is ridiculous. Dick Turpin!!

  • Sussex Bantam says:

    10 May10 May 09:28

    That was also the case at the Hilton we stayed in at Giardini-Naxxos in Sicily – although they kindly waived the cost per towel for Gold members !

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