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Hello all,
I tried to read through the forum and it seems that it is a yes — that for standard room, 5-4-4 can be applied to SLH hotel. Looking at a hotel at more than £800 a night but with 95k point a night. Quite a saving after some number crunching.
It seems so yes.
I’ve just done a dummy booking on Dukes London. Their rate is normally 100,000 points a night I did 5 nights from 6th Jan. when you go through to summary it’s only 400,000
What hotel have you found please.
I successfully booked a hotel in KL for next March. 20,000 a night. 5 nights for 80,000.
Yep, I’m Hilton Gold and stayed at a SLH property in Bali in September. I got upgraded 2 room categories above the one I originally booked and stayed 5 nights for 4. Compared to the cash price, it was quite a considerable saving.
Currently sitting by the pool at the Danna Langkawi. 320,000 Hilton points and 5-4-4. Booked the basic room and got upgraded about 3 levels to viceroy ocean king view.
180 nights a year on average and stayed in some top tier hotels, but this place is next level. Absolutely amazing hotel. Really can’t fault it.
Did the math based on cash price and got conservatively 0.75p per HH point, so can’t complain.
Currently sitting by the pool at the Danna Langkawi. 320,000 Hilton points and 5-4-4. Booked the basic room and got upgraded about 3 levels to viceroy ocean king view.
180 nights a year on average and stayed in some top tier hotels, but this place is next level. Absolutely amazing hotel. Really can’t fault it.
Did the math based on cash price and got conservatively 0.75p per HH point, so can’t complain.
I’m undecided on this property.
I’ve currently booked into the Westin for 5 nights in March. I keep changing my mind.Just jumping on this, I have noticed that Rothay Manor at Ambleside is now a SLH and a fairly reasonable 60k points pn, so you could have 5 nights in the Lake District (should you want to brave the traffic queues and coach parties!) for 240k points which is not to be sniffed at.
We stayed last year when it was still in the Mr & Mrs portfolio, it’s a very nice property in a great location.
I haven’t stayed at the Westin so can’t compare. This place has everything though. Private beach, massive pool, every facility you could think of, four restaurants and is unbelievably clean.
I wanted to take a cab to the airport so I could rent a car. Concierge asked why I don’t just take the hotel BMW X1? I said I wanted to drive…. No problem. The hotel has random cars the guests can rent.
I can’t get over how clean this place is. They have a groundskeeper that scrubs the waterfalls around the ponds. You’d never notice the algae, but they’re cleaning it. Every day before the pool opens the team are going back and forth vacuuming the pool.
Attention to detail is unreal.
I’ve already booked our return for Feb using Hilton points.
Currently sitting by the pool at the Danna Langkawi. 320,000 Hilton points and 5-4-4. Booked the basic room and got upgraded about 3 levels to viceroy ocean king view.
180 nights a year on average and stayed in some top tier hotels, but this place is next level. Absolutely amazing hotel. Really can’t fault it.
Did the math based on cash price and got conservatively 0.75p per HH point, so can’t complain.
I’m undecided on this property.
I’ve currently booked into the Westin for 5 nights in March. I keep changing my mind.Just jumping on this, I have noticed that Rothay Manor at Ambleside is now a SLH and a fairly reasonable 60k points pn, so you could have 5 nights in the Lake District (should you want to brave the traffic queues and coach parties!) for 240k points which is not to be sniffed at.
We stayed last year when it was still in the Mr & Mrs portfolio, it’s a very nice property in a great location.
That hotel looks like just the thing to book for my OH’s birthday next year for a few nights, £300 a night seems really reasonable to me. I don’t have any Hilton points and am not sure how to get them. Only downside is it will probably take 3 or 4 hours to drive there from down south. (I know lots of you have this problem the other way round, to get the Heathrow etc so apologies for winging)
@Misty, assume you’re not a Hilton Honors memnber then? You get a slightly better rate if you join, and of course you start earning points. You can also do transfers from Amex MR and a few other schemes (I think Virgin points as well!)
There are regular offers on buying points but you have to be a member for a certain amount of time before you can buy them, IIRC.
Also, don’t underestimate the traffic in the Lake District in summer and school holiday periods (and the M6 in general) – the roads just aren’t up to the amount of tourism. Those of us in the know have generally sacked it off for the Yorkshire Dales and Northumberland! We had a lovely time there, but unfortunately my birthday fell on the late May bank holiday weekend and it took us 3 hours to drive 60 miles home!
@NorthernLass I haven’t started on any new schemes, I was going to go to Virgin, but that seems to be less worthwhile. so maybe Hilton is the way to go. I do get MR points from my Gold Card but have transferred most of those to Avios. His birthday is in the depth of winter, but I would imagine the Lake District is busy all year round – still want to visit though.
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