I tried to book an extra night using Starwood owner discount. It costs $189.00 per night. It is more expensive than booking directly on starwood website $169.00. Owner discount is useless. Orbitz rents it for $130.00
myip said:I tried to book an extra night using Starwood owner discount. It costs $189.00 per night. It is more expensive than booking directly on starwood website $169.00. Owner discount is useless. Orbitz rents it for $130.00
drann56 said:If orbitz quoted you 130.00, spg has a best rate gauarantee. See the link.
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/bestrate/index.html
You'll get that rate plus another 10%. If I read it right.
DeniseM said:I think you only get a 5% discount on hotels and you can usually beat the rate elsewhere.
Enjoying great escapes is now even easier with your Owners-only hotel discount program. As an Owner, you are guaranteed a 10% discount off the best available rate all year long—even during peak seasons—at participating Starwood hotels and resorts.
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MON2REY said:We booked a room at the Westin Maui for two nights and asked for the 35% discount. They told us the SPG discount was not available there. We ended up using our Starpoints.
MON2REY said:Denise, in the binder we received it states that SPG Gold members are entitled to a 35% discount off rack rates at all Starwood resorts (if available).
Are you interpreting resorts to mean only timeshares as opposed to including fine hotels?
MON2REY said:Denise, in the binder we received it states that SPG Gold members are entitled to a 35% discount off rack rates at all Starwood resorts (if available).
Are you interpreting resorts to mean only timeshares as opposed to including fine hotels?
Did they tell you when that was effective? That's where we usually stay at when we need to evacuate for hurricanes (luckily none this year so far ). By the way, I checked at SPG.com and they are still taking reservations for the Sheraton World, even into next year.Transit said:You Have to check all your options.Just today I got an email from SPG stating that the Sheraton World resort is no longer a part of Starwood and if I wanted to cancel my reservations I could.
deniselew said:I'm the other Denise , but my understanding has always been that the owner discount is 35% off the rack rate of the SVO resorts. Often the Internet rates for these resorts are close to the 35% off, but I've found it to be a bit lower. I've only seen the 10% off the lowest rate for Starwood hotels, and it used to be just 5%, so I'm happy with the 10%.