Hotel bits: Hilton Oasis VIP tickets, The Hoxton Edinburgh in ALL, Park Inn Cardiff closure

Hotel news in brief:

Hilton sells Oasis VIP packages for a record price

If you are interested in what people are willing to pay for tickets for the upcoming Oasis concerts at Wembley, here is an example.

Yesterday morning, two pairs of VIP tickets were quietly dropped onto the Hilton Honors website.

The cost was a whopping 600,000 Hilton Honors points per pair. At our conservative valuation of 0.33p per Hilton point, this was £2,000-worth.

The tickets sold within an hour. I don’t know if they went to HfP readers or not, but it was posted in our forum at 8.20am and they had gone by 8.30am when I saw it.

Given what people have been paying for tickets – the last deal I was sent by an agency was £2,000 + VAT per person for a shared box – it is arguably a good deal. I’m more surprised that enough people have a Hilton balance this high for both packages to go so quickly.

The Hoxton Edinburgh is participating in Accor Live Limitless

Last week we covered the opening of the new The Hoxton Edinburgh hotel, on the site of what was the Hilton Grosvenor. Bar image below.

What we didn’t realise at the time is that this Hoxton participates in Accor Live Limitless.

You earn and redeem ALL points on stays at the hotel.

Whilst Hoxton is part-owned by Accor through its Ennismore offshoot, it has proved very difficult to persuade the operators of hotels signed before the purchase to join.

We’ve seen this with other recent acquisitions – many early Six Senses properties are still excluded from earning or redeeming IHG One Rewards points for example. There are also other hotels in Ennismore which are not part of the ALL programme, such as Gleneagles.

Other Hoxton properties which are Accor Live Limitless participants are (hat-tip to Loyalty Lobby for this):

• Amsterdam Lloyd
• Berlin
• Florence
• Rome
• Vienna

The Hoxton Edinburgh page on accorhotels.com is here.

Park Inn Cardiff temporarily closed

If you planning a Cardiff trip, Radisson’s Park Inn has been ‘temporarily closed’. This is the hotel which is across from the Utilita arena and St David’s shopping centre.

‘Safety and security concerns’ have been given as the reason for the closure.

The hotel is reportedly one of 12 buildings in the city which were found to have failed the required standards for cladding combustibility.

Bookings are being taken again from Saturday 2nd August but if you have the choice you may want to book elsewhere just in case.