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As above. I’m Hilton Gold. Is it pot luck, or vary from hotel to hotel for free breakfast if I book a room for my wife and sister in law to stay? It will be a UK hotel if that makes any difference?
Thanks
The rule is that they should not get your benefits, including breakfast, if you are not staying. Sometimes hotels will either intentionally or unintentionally still provide them.
Assuming you are male, it seems quite likely they will notice you are not staying if they see your wife and her sister, which could lead to some awkward questions.
If it happened repeatedly, they could theoretically escalate to corporate – this is the sort of thing Hilton may ultimately close your account for if they think you are trying to fiddle it.
Add your wife as the second named guest on the booking so she can check in on her own. That will alleviate any questions at check in. She just needs to say my husband is arriving later, your sister in law can then join her. The breakfast room will have you listed via your Gold status as x 2 for breakfast as a result with no link to it being two females rather than a male and a female.
Why do you think that your hotel status benefits apply to anybody? Do you think that if you’re BA Gold you could get First Wing access for a statusless person who books a flight using your account?
If it’s a points stay, you can actually do this by booking on the phone, and changing the primary guest name to another name (tends to only be US-based phone agents who know how to do it). Then, your name would not appear on the reservation at all, and the hotel would see you wife’s name as the primary guest and also see your wife as the status holder. (Thus, your wife needs to be aware of what Gold is.)
It is not possible to do this on a paid booking. Also, this is different to just adding your wife as the additional guest, where your own name still appears.
The breakfast room will have you listed via your Gold status as x 2 for breakfast as a result with no link to it being two females rather than a male and a female.
Not universally true. That would only be the case if someone manually writes down room numbers as people enter the restaurant, or someone manually wrote out the eligible room numbers earlier.
If the eligibility checking is done from a printed list or “live” on the computer, the guest name will be visible. On occasion I have been asked to confirm my name, especially in cases where the hotel prints the status members at the end while the main list only holds the rooms with breakfast-inclusive rates (not sure why).
All of these situations have happened to me in UK Hiltons as well as elsewhere. However I do agree that the breakfast dragon won’t care if the name does not match the person’s appearance.
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