Hotel room pricing (Was: Re: Dorm room pricing?)

Matthew Wilson diakopter at gmail.com
Thu Apr 11 10:45:53 PDT 2013


Hi Patrick & Uri,

Through some experimentation just now, I discovered that a minimum of 7
night stay is required [at this time, anyway] for the $119-prepay rate to
be displayed.  Since the room that I booked was for 7 nights, the rate
showed up for me, and that's what I'd been searching afterward too. Here's
what appeared not 5 minutes ago (see image attachment):

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On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:11:36AM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > On 04/11/2013 08:50 AM, Daniel Wright wrote:
> > >Nope.   According to the contract, that rate should be valid for any
> number of nights between 5/31/13 and 6/8/13.   If you are booking on a date
> outside of that range, they may charge you standard rack rate.
> > >
> >
> > i did the same for sun-sat. spoke to the hotel and also hilton
> > reservations and no prepay or $119 deal was found. i still would
> > like to see what page or something that matthew wilson saw with that
> > deal.
>
> This past weekend I did see the $119 rate available, but it was through
> the standard "best available / advance purchase" rate and not through
> the group code.  "Best available rate" was $139, advance purchase was $119.
>
> It appears to me that Doubletree has now sold out of their $119-level
> advance purchase rooms; when I looked for a reservation just now I see
> that their best available (cancellable) rate is $159, advance purchase
> (no cancellation) is $139, and the conference rate (cancellable) is $139.
>
> HTH,
>
> Pm
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