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That’s a lot of fours…
I’m looking to make best use of my Hilton points by booking a 5 for 4 redemption somewhere for my family of four. So far struggling to find much, as the ‘reasonable’ redemptions (i.e. less than 150k/night) all seem to be entry level rooms that don’t tend to fit all four of us (kids most certainly won’t share a bed or foldout sofa).
Has anyone found a property that offers a 5-4-4 with at least three separate beds? Preferably a Conrad or WA, but not essential.
Hilton Quebec used to be 50,000 points for a five person room, but the room is quite small. The hotel will try and sell you a cash upgrade to a bigger suite. It’s a fantastic city though and hotel is well located on the edge of the old town.
Book standard and beg (if diamond) or pay (if not) for upgrade
Where are you going? Although it has its drawbacks, the USA is probably the best place to get family rooms, though 2 doubles on a standard redemption is probably the best you’ll get (then try and get an upgrade).
The best Hilton properties for families IMO are Homewood Suites and similar – obviously not Conrad/WA level, but the nicer ones are very acceptable. You get a 2/3 room suite with full kitchen facilities, usually a pool and BBQ area and basic breakfast included often for 40k or fewer points per night.
Hilton give you the option to guarantee connecting rooms, so presumably you could book 2 connecting rooms, one of which was a twin, and benefit from the 5-4-4 on each room. Appreciate this could potentially chew through more points than just booking one room, but if you are only searching for rooms that can accommodate max 2 people, then it often opens up availability at the lower end of the redemption scale, i.e. 2 x 60k per night is cheaper than 1 x 150k per night, with the bonus of getting more space and privacy.
Or book one room on points and one cash, especially if you can get a good deal via Emyr or similar.
Best bet is to book a hotel which has a room type you want, book a standard room as a reward and then start an email negotiation over a cash upgrade. Worse case scenario is that they refuse and you can cancel and start again.
“all seem to be entry level rooms that don’t tend to fit all four of us (kids most certainly won’t share a bed or foldout sofa).”
Mine are at the same stage. Time to accept that your days of fitting into one hotel room are over (until they leave home anyway :D) This is where Hilton guaranteed interconnected rooms is extremely useful. Even modest interconnected rooms (1 double, 1 twin) are substantially more space and far better in this situation than all but the most Presidential of suites – I’m sure you’d rather have the option to close the door and have some, ahem, ‘private you and me time’ with Mrs phantomchickenz at some stage, than share even the most enormous room with the whole family all trip.
Plenty of decent properties still have base rooms at 50-60k/night even these days, so add in 5-for-4 and you’re still at or under 100k/night with every member of the family much happier.
Where are you going? Although it has its drawbacks, the USA is probably the best place to get family rooms, though 2 doubles on a standard redemption is probably the best you’ll get (then try and get an upgrade).
The best Hilton properties for families IMO are Homewood Suites and similar – obviously not Conrad/WA level, but the nicer ones are very acceptable. You get a 2/3 room suite with full kitchen facilities, usually a pool and BBQ area and basic breakfast included often for 40k or fewer points per night.
Yes, I should have added my main constraint – I’m not allowed back in the US. Don’t ask. Unfortunately that seems to rule out home wood and Embassy Suites.
Otherwise fairly flexible, nothing in particular planned.
Thanks everyone else for the tips, there are some good nuggets in there to have a go at.
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