Key worker? Get a 25% discount at Hilton hotels

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• gareth says:

  4 May4 May 04:43

  My wife is a key worker, do you think I could book for us on my account given I have status, as long as we both stay?

  • James says:

    4 May4 May 05:16

    Shouldn’t imagine this will be an issue

• MattB says:

  4 May4 May 04:48

  Had a look at pricing for some of our bookings in case it was cheaper to rebook but found the rate wasn’t available for those dates, and prices have almost doubled so it wouldnt help anyway!

• Michael C says:

  4 May4 May 05:39

  Grr…great NYC rates, but we”re education and it doesn’t count!
  Interesting to see the US putting the army ahead of teachers…

  • George1976 says:

    4 May4 May 06:44

    They’re a weird lot when it comes to their army , who have generally been useless despite their massive resources. Pretty embarrassing really.

  • Njb says:

    4 May4 May 07:56

    We do: rontline Thanks rate is valid only for medical professionals with medical identification, for guests with valid military ID including active duty, reserve, and retired service members and their spouses and families and in EMEA, for professionals within Health and Social care, Education and Childcare, Key Public Services, Local and National Government, Military, Food and other necessary goods, Public safety and National security, Transport, Utilities, Communication and Financial Services.

• Jenny says:

  4 May4 May 06:57

  What about post Office workers. Key worker in uk, mena or both?

  • kitten says:

    4 May4 May 22:46

    post office comes under communications so looks like you’re ok in EMEA, UK

• George Banks says:

  4 May4 May 07:20

  Are most of HFP readers bankers? Didn’t expect that to be your core demographic.

  • Rob says:

    4 May4 May 08:31

    80% of the U.K. 80% is London based, of which a large chunk will be banking, average income £70k+

    Come to the next party and see for yourself.

    Other sites are available if your core interest is where to download a coupon for 10p off Weetabix 🙂

    • Greg says:

      4 May4 May 09:34

      bit unnecessarily passive agressive a reply no?

    • Mr(s) Entitled says:

      4 May4 May 09:38

      Where is that Weetabix coupon? It’s more use to me than my Amex offers.

      • Alan says:

        4 May4 May 10:31

        Only valid when bought in conjuction with Heinz baked beans unfortunately 😂

      • Rob says:

        4 May4 May 10:32

        I actually bought some Weetabix in a Little Waitrose yesterday and was shocked by the price, but I’m probably just out of touch! I think it was £2.99 for 24.

        • Chris says:

          4 May4 May 11:53

          Then you do need the 10p Weetabix coupon!

        • WaynedP says:

          4 May4 May 12:36

          Should have done your homework beforehand, Rob, ha ha

          https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/food-and-drink/article/best-weetabix-and-wheat-biscuit-alternatives-aY6k79r093gi

        • Rob says:

          4 May4 May 13:32

          You don’t get alternatives in a Little Waitrose! You’re meant to be grateful if they sell one version of whatever you want.

    • Doommonger says:

      4 May4 May 10:10

      That must be the reason you didn’t speak to me, at the last two parties! Not being from London or a banker, on the other hand myself and Mrs Doomster did have very pleasant conversation with Mrs Burgess re; Rostock, und Leipzig.

      Doomster

      • Rob says:

        4 May4 May 10:30

        The first party was 140 and I spoke to everyone, because I stood at the bottom of the steps as you came in and insisted I did. When we went to 250 I tried but it got a lot harder. 500 people over 2 hours just doesn’t work though. My wife is more interesting anyway 🙂

    • Alan says:

      4 May4 May 10:31

      An 80% banker party doesn’t sound massively appealing it must be said, hopefully a slightly more diverse range turn up!

    • Steve says:

      4 May4 May 10:51

      A party held in central London attracts mostly bankers. Shocking stat. I think Rob widely misunderstands his reader base.

      • Rob says:

        4 May4 May 13:43

        You know all those stories you read in the papers about the data trail you leave behind you when you use the internet? It’s all true.

        I can tell you the most popular car brand amongst our readers, it is that granular. What you earn and where you live (in aggregate, not you personally) is a doddle.

        • Doommonger says:

          4 May4 May 15:17

          Although not a banker myself, to be upfront Mrs Doomster did work for merchant banks until 2011 and hails from eastern Europe so may be some common ground.

          Re Data trail, if one really wants to hide there’s always Proxy servers/VPN’s I guess.

          The Doomster

• Allan says:

  4 May4 May 07:44

  Generally these rates are not that widely available and sometimes can even be higher than the advanced purchase rates from my experience in last few months.

• Beardless Hipster says:

  4 May4 May 07:57

  Financial services are bankers aren’t they? Last year’s article implied bankers are eligible https://www.headforpoints.com/2020/07/19/hilton-launches-hotel-discounts-for-uk-key-workers/

  • Rob says:

    4 May4 May 08:25

    Fair point!

• WaynedP says:

  4 May4 May 08:03

  Nice gesture from Hilton, and I sympathise that it is very difficult to draw a valid line on who should or shouldn’t qualify.

  And excellent to recognise and reward hugely overworked NHS frontline staff daunted by prospect of backlogs for a long time yet.

  But it does seem a little incongruous that you could qualify as an IT (or HR etc) professional in a utility, but not qualify as a volunteer in a mental or spiritual health charity.

  Although technically I presume that I would qualify by virtue of my employment in the support service of a utility (I’m not directly responsible for keeping lights on and gas flowing in my role) I wouldn’t qualify on the basis of what I consider to be the greater contribution to people’s spiritual welfare and peace of mind in my unpaid, pastoral role.

  That, and the fact that many other more deserving individuals like Craig here on HfP wouldn’t qualify as non-professional volunteers in a frontline vaccination service, would make me feel extremely uncomfortable taking up this offer personally.

  • ankomonkey says:

    4 May4 May 10:36

    Glad someone else remembered the great work by volunteers such as Craig 🙂

    • Navara says:

      4 May4 May 12:00

      +1

  • Chris says:

    4 May4 May 11:56

    Out of 7 friends that work directly in the NHS, none of them have been overworked.
    Indeed one of them has told me they’re sick of being put on a pedestal when those involved on the front line of Covid account for a tiny proportion of the NHS workforce.

    • Jonathan says:

      4 May4 May 13:14

      Tiny proportion? Not sure that’s true. There are 1.6 million staff in the NHS.

      Just over half are clinical 118k hospital doctors, 34k GP’s, 330k nurses , 114k scientific & allied health professionals & 350k clinical support staff eg. Healthcare Assistants (the “frontline”).

      The rest perform support functions eg. 56k estates staff.

      Clearly some clinical staff have been relatively protected eg orthopaedic surgeons don’t have much work in lockdown but a lot were redeployed. Equally some of the non clinical have been very busy as well eg. Estates staff repurposing non clinical areas, fitting extra oxygen supplies or distributing the mountains of PPE. I’m not going to pretend there haven’t been a few middle managers (not all) with their feet up “WFH” but in general the NHS has had a busy year & the backlog will keep us very busy for a few more years.

      Do I think I’m more important/valuable/deserving of special treatment than the supermarket delivery driver or even the furloughed hospitality worker? Absolutely not.

      This isn’t a free stay though, it’s a small discount (that may not even be a discount) targeted at a sector of society who have been busy & fully employed for a year with no ability to spend on leisure. In other words clever marketing rather than undeserved “gifts”.

      • Chris says:

        4 May4 May 23:21

        The furloughed hospitality worker gets a 20% pay cut, job uncertainty and no discounts from Hilton.
        The NHS workers on full pay, pay rises (albeit modest) and cast iron job certainty meanwhile …
        I think they’re deserving of praise, but there’s a whole world of pain out there that isn’t being very fairly reflected.

        • Jek says:

          5 May5 May 08:41

          So why are you specifically picking on the NHS? There will be definitely be a group of frontline staff that deserve support, e.g. the ones on COVID wards now leaving with PTSD. Why haven’t you picked professions that will not have suffered, e.g. Financial Services? I would have understood that…

  • Lady London says:

    4 May4 May 22:53

    I think you could do the Health & Social Care @WaynedP if you had any evidence of your pastoral activities on you. Not all professionals are paid.

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