Get VIP tickets to The Boat Race with Hilton Honors (with a VERY generous twist)

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• TimM says:

  5 Mar5 March 05:43

  It will be interesting to see what the winning bids are.

• Andrew. says:

  5 Mar5 March 08:12

  Branding a hotel “GBH” always makes me smile

• Michael_s says:

  5 Mar5 March 10:05

  Sorry – am I missing something here?

  Can I just show up at Waldorf Astoria Maldives Ithaafushi, book 3 nights with points and 1 night cash, and tell them “thanks but no thanks” when they ask for 1 night’s £4k bill?

  • LittleNick says:

    5 Mar5 March 10:07

    This is the implication of what Rob is saying but seems risky to me

    • Rob says:

      5 Mar5 March 10:12

      Your only risk is that you don’t book a standard room, so you need to email the hotel, tell them you have a cert and get it in writing that you are in the ‘base’ room category – although if you’ve booked on points for other nights it should be base room anyway.

      Hotel doesn’t care, Hilton pays them what you would pay. I know how much hotels pay Hilton when they are forced to issue these certs for service failures and it is a LOT. Easily enough spare £ to pay for the odd Maldives night because 95% will be redeemed for rooms which cost less than what the certificate costs the issuing hotel.

      However, in your case, surely it makes more sense to book 5 nights on points to get ‘544’?

      Some more info here on how they work – https://loyaltylobby.com/2024/01/10/reader-question-how-to-use-hilton-be-my-guest-certificate-2/. You should earn points for the value of that night. Resort fees are also included if applicable. Long FT thread here – https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hilton-hilton-honors/332479-our-guest-my-guest-certificates-definitive-thread-30.html

      • Nat says:

        5 Mar5 March 11:47

        I am doing exactly this with two Be My Guest vouchers next month. Ithafuushi were very good at noting the use of the vouchers etc. Note that the $900pp yacht transfer and $500+ meal bills significantly erodes some of the “saving” but it’s still utterly remarkable value.

      • krys_k says:

        5 Mar5 March 16:49

        Am fascinated by this type of certificate. Under what circumstances are they given, offered ?

        • tony says:

          6 Mar6 March 10:10

          IME they are given for fairly significant service failures and the property got a full on shake down from BAH who I had booked through. Hadn’t realised what these things were but I was offered one a few years back with the caveat that it would take a lot of time to sort out, or something like 80k points. I took the points, but redeemed for two pitch view rooms at the Hampshire cricket ground on a match day, so not too shabby.

• The Paw 🐾 says:

  5 Mar5 March 11:20

  Go Oxford!

  • daveinitalia says:

    5 Mar5 March 13:14

    Are they in the final again? I don’t follow it every year, but when I do hear about it you always seem to have the same two teams in the final

    • qc says:

      5 Mar5 March 14:09

      😂😂

      If you win this auction and don’t want the boat race bit I’ll happily take it off your hands as I live close to the starting point.😉

      • Rob says:

        5 Mar5 March 16:07

        These certificates are paper certificates – old school – and I suspect they will be given out in person on the day. If you lose it, tough.

        There is a story on the Flyertalk thread I referenced earlier where the guest handed over the cerficate at check-in and at check-out the hotel denied having it and demanded it be handed over (again). Take a photo of it!

    • Susiq says:

      6 Mar6 March 05:02

      Tell me you are joking….

      • Rob says:

        6 Mar6 March 08:02

        He is. This is a classic English joke, indeed I regret not making a similar one in the article!

  • cin4 says:

    5 Mar5 March 13:36

    I am an alumnus of Cam but am proud to say I have never watched a rowing race in my life.

    • Genghis says:

      5 Mar5 March 17:07

      How do you know if someone went to Oxbridge?… 🙂

      • pauldb says:

        5 Mar5 March 20:56

        We’ll usually tell you soon enough. 😜

    • Michael Jennings says:

      5 Mar5 March 23:27

      I am also. I tried rowing on the Cam once. That was enough for me.

• Bobby says:

  6 Mar6 March 07:14

  “Any Hilton hotel” – generally Be Me Guests are brand specific. So I’d be doubtful the voucher would work for a Conrad/Waldorf Astoria.

  “You don’t need redemption availability” – but any standard room being available for cash means that there will be redemption availability by definition?

  • Rob says:

    6 Mar6 March 07:58

    The certs are NOT brand specific. See the extra links I posted yesterday.

    2nd point is also wrong. You are confusing Hilton with Hyatt, which always opens reward nights if cash rooms are still there.

• AL says:

  6 Mar6 March 18:15

  My last BMG was valid for 24mo. I enjoyed very much the night at The Del.

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