Hotel sold out for next April (2024)

[Gary B]

Wow, I was looking to book the Hilton Riverside in New Orleans and it is sold out on two of the days I want to stay. A 1700 room hotel sold out 11 months in advance. I can’t find an email address to email them. Also what has happened to the holding rooms for Diamond members? Any clues anyone?

[Travel Strong]

The hotel probably just hasn’t opened their booking calendar out that far yet – flick through earlier dates and see if they all say sold out any time after a certain date. You can ask the hotel, but if you just check back it will become available soon.

[BA Flyer IHG Stayer]

Doing some dummy bookings and there seems to be a week where there have no rooms but they do the rest of the month and going into May.

Perhaps they have been booked out for a large conference / sports event ?

[NorthernLass]

If you do a “my dates are flexible”-type search for 1 night, you can then see exactly which dates are available. But Hilton recently changed its reservation system so you can only book 10 months out at a lot of properties, and confusingly they will say “sold out” even though no rooms have even been released for sale yet!

[Rob]

It’s more likely to be a huge conference or event – you’d get a feel by looking at prices of other hotels.

You really don’t want to invoke the Diamond room guarantee as this comes at a rate likely to be 2-3x higher than what you’d have paid otherwise – because it covers the compensation to the person who gets their booking cancelled to fit you in.

[Gary B]

I thought it might be a conference/convention but cannot find one listed in New Orleans at that time. I have done as you suggest, a trawl of the other hotels and their pricing remains constant throughout the month although JW Marriott is 3x higher on one of the dates. I won’t be invoking the Diamond room guarantee if that’s the case Rob. Anyway there is nothing on the website that offers me a Diamond guarantee.

[zio]

On the 8th?

[AnotherUser]

Unless you’re attending a conference at that hotel, I’d avoid booking it if there is a big event on in the hotel (there often is). Can feel oddly like you’ve snuck into someone else’s work event, and the hotel can be a bit slammed if there is a big event. Lots of people will feel different, though.

I wasn’t thrilled to be there during a conference when I was attending the conference 😉