Hilton just raised their award prices by over 100,000 points per night at popular resorts. This is the increase of Hilton’s highest priced room to $3,845 from $2,850 in a single day.
The “most expensive waldorf astoria” is a hotel that has recently raised its award prices over 100,000 points per night. Hilton’s new rates will apply to most of their popular resorts.
At Popular Hilton Resorts, Award Prices Over 100,000 Points Per Night Have Increased
on March 10, 2022 by Gary Leff
Because of how badly they’ve already messed up the Honors program, Hilton’s gutting of it receives little notice.
- Elites are not only not guaranteed upgrades to available suites, but they are also not guaranteed late checkout. Free breakfast used to be the only true advantage, but now that they provide a food and beverage credit at U.S. locations, it seldom covers the cost of breakfast.
- They wouldn’t charge more than 50,000 points a night a decade ago; currently, the top point cost is treble that, and base earning isn’t even as excellent as Marriott, IHG, or Hyatt, thanks to the deletion of ‘double dipping,’ which the program was renowned for (though promotions can make up for this).
Marriott is facing backlash for scrapping reward charts at the end of the month, although Hilton did the same thing in 2017 while saying that award pricing would remain same. And every time a program has eliminated public price lists, it’s created an irresistible incentive to hike award prices. They aren’t even required to inform members of their actions.
Hilton has recently raised prices at several of its top hotels, albeit determining how many and by how much would need a thorough investigation. Consider the following example:
- The Grand Wailea Maui Waldorf Astoria Resort increased its nightly rate from 95,000 to 110,000 points.
- Conrad Maldives increased their nightly rate from 95,000 to 120,000 points.
There are only ordinary rooms available at the Conrad Maldives, one of the most popular aspirational redemptions for Honors members, in March and April of this year, and none at all after that (which is highly suggestive that the hotel is playing games with inventory). April’s regular room availability at 120,000 points per night is shown below.
I was wondering whether the Waldorf Astoria Maldives had gone raised in price after seeing these two. That’s already 150,000 points each night, and it’s going to stay that way.
That hotel opens in 2019 with the then-highest Honors fee per night of 120,000 points.
Hilton said that they had no intentions to add any additional hotels at that pricing range, yet just a few months later, they opened another property at that price bracket. Conrad Maldives is now open (while Waldorf Astoria Maldives saw a big increase during the pandemic).
The Waldorf Astoria is a luxury hotel in New York City.
I too wondered whether the Conrad Bora Bora went up, but I don’t know since the hotel isn’t displaying any award availability for the whole next year as of this writing.
Marriott has gotten a lot of flak for failing to satisfy consumer expectations. This is primarily due to the gap between promises and delivery that has existed since the Bonvoy program’s inception. This isn’t to say that Hilton or IHG are objectively superior. Because such initiatives don’t promise much, they’re less likely to fail. As the saying goes, the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.
More From the Wing’s Perspective
The “most expensive hilton properties” are the most popular resorts that Hilton has. In order to make these hotels more appealing, Hilton increased their prices by 100,000 points per night.
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