Marriott fined £18.4 million for UK hotel data breach

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• ChrisW says:

  31 Oct31 October 08:51

  BBC reporting London could be in lockdown within five days. Who knows what will be possible more than 30 days in advance!!

  • Brian says:

    31 Oct31 October 09:38

    But people on here said everything would be back to normal by August? 🧐

    • ChrisW says:

      31 Oct31 October 09:40

      August 2021?

      Perhaps 😂

      • Gavin says:

        31 Oct31 October 10:37

        Booked this at 6am to turn a Saturday lunch in London into a fun weekend staying down (end of Nov); then checked the news at 6.15am to be greeted with lockdown talk.

        In future I’ll do it the other way around!

        • Polly says:

          31 Oct31 October 15:08

          Love it!

      • Brian says:

        31 Oct31 October 11:18

        Remember when people booked holidays to Australia for Xmas on that avios deal thinking that there was even the remotest chance they’d be allowed in? 😂

        The number of people who don’t live in the real world is surprising

        • Rob says:

          31 Oct31 October 14:39

          But this was a zero risk gamble, given that there is free cancellation as the flights won’t go. Arguably you were a mug for not booking.

    • Char Char says:

      31 Oct31 October 15:13

      It is on average compared to previous year, despite what the media tell you, hospital occupancy including the flu from previous years is at the same or below.

      • Brian says:

        31 Oct31 October 16:04

        “ Arguably you were a mug for not booking.”

        Yeah I’m a mug for not giving BA an interest free loan. I feel like such a mug 😂

        Embarrassing

        • Jack says:

          31 Oct31 October 16:18

          You’re embarrassing, a grown person coming on here and insulting people with zero provocation. People just want to live their lives and hope for the best, and to make fun of them is rude and cruel.

    • Lady London says:

      31 Oct31 October 19:43

      In 1939 they said the war would be over by Christmas.

      • Alex Sm says:

        31 Oct31 October 23:26

        What did give them such confidence?

• Anna says:

  31 Oct31 October 08:54

  @meta posted the other day that you have to call IHG to cancel a Mr & Mrs award stay so it might be necessary to plan a bit further ahead than 30 days!

• Pangolin says:

  31 Oct31 October 09:11

  Will any of that £18m fine be going to the people that were affected by the data breach, or will it simply be banked by the Treasury?

  (rhetorical question)

  • ChrisC says:

    31 Oct31 October 09:48

    It goes to the Treasury.

    Same as the BA fine.

  • Mikey says:

    31 Oct31 October 10:11

    Even if they agreed to, it would be a paltry £0.05 per customer, as per British technology news site: https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/30/marriott_starwood_hack_fine_just_18_4bn/

    • Pangolin says:

      31 Oct31 October 11:21

      Well I want my five pence!

      • The real John says:

        31 Oct31 October 12:55

        Take an extra teabag from the housekeeping trolley – if they are still giving them out at least

• JohnT says:

  31 Oct31 October 09:23

  Kensington – Up to £45 for 2 if you go for the slightly larger room now!

• Anna says:

  31 Oct31 October 10:30

  I wonder if you get breakfast on Mr & Mrs Smith award bookings. I’ve got one for next year where the only cash rate is B & B and there’s no option to purchase breakfast separately.

  • Secret Squirrel says:

    31 Oct31 October 12:41

    I was thinking the same Anna. Maybe contact the hotel direct to see if all rooms come with breakfast Inc even via third party.

• Char Char says:

  31 Oct31 October 15:15

  Well the smith addition is great at it offers a lot of hotels in places where IHG didn’t have a presence, they have got Domes of Elounda on the Smith site but not on the IHG one.

  Wonder what hotel Rob stayed at in Crete, or maybe he is keeping it a secret so his fans don’t take pics of him?

  • Rob says:

    31 Oct31 October 15:27

    I was at Domes, currently in-air flying back. I met enough HfP readers whilst I was there as it was!

  • meta says:

    31 Oct31 October 15:31

    Domes of Elounda is part of Marriott, so will never be bookable on IHG. Rob is staying there as seen on HfP Instagram. As reported here, Mr & Mrs Smith hotels will only be available in certain countries and certain properties. You won’t be able to book Amans either. There are a few aspirational properties that will be available on points and I can’t wait to book some of them.

• D says:

  31 Oct31 October 16:18

  Any tips on how to disable autoconvert ibis–>Iberia?

  • D says:

    31 Oct31 October 16:20

    *accor

• Brian says:

  31 Oct31 October 16:42

  Two other points about the Ibis deal that I don’t think have been mentioned: one, this is a free way of resetting points expiry, if your points are due to expire any time soon (not sure if Accor have paused that, though). Two, if you don’t have enough points to redeem yet (i.e. less than 2000, I believe), then this will be a free way of getting you over 2000 so you can redeem for another stay.

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