"I Have More Reservations I cannot Use"
Jun 5th, 2016, 10:14 AM
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"I Have More Reservations I cannot Use"
Hi All,
I am currently book ed at the Pullman Montparnasse, Paris for the nights of Sunday, Sept 25 and Monday, Sep 26, 2016. The price of the room is 425 EUR. Breakfast is not included.
I shall transfer the reservation for 215 EUR, if they will let me.
I should know by midweek if this is doable.
I don;t know yet
I am currently book ed at the Pullman Montparnasse, Paris for the nights of Sunday, Sept 25 and Monday, Sep 26, 2016. The price of the room is 425 EUR. Breakfast is not included.
I shall transfer the reservation for 215 EUR, if they will let me.
I should know by midweek if this is doable.
I don;t know yet
Jun 6th, 2016, 01:12 AM
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I just checked on www.hrs.de and I found that the room rate for this date is € 179.11 for a standard room and € 203.51 for a superior room.
The fully flexible rate for a standard room is € 219.96 and for a superior room € 249.96.
It is the Pullman Paris Montparnasse, 19 Rue Commandant René Mouchotte, 75014 Paris, from 25 Sept 2016 to 26 Sept, one night, one double room, two adults, right?
The fully flexible rate for a standard room is € 219.96 and for a superior room € 249.96.
It is the Pullman Paris Montparnasse, 19 Rue Commandant René Mouchotte, 75014 Paris, from 25 Sept 2016 to 26 Sept, one night, one double room, two adults, right?
Jun 6th, 2016, 09:59 AM
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I am really sorry to read all of this and yes, spare me the lectures about pre-paid and non-cancellable reservations but I think the refusal to transfer is a rather blatant revenue grabbing behavior. I mean, even if you paid some sort of transfer fee for COL?
Bottom line, even though I am probably already dealing with companies who routinely do the same thing knowing it is a Pullman which I believe is part of the Accor group makes me reluctant to deal with any of them.
And Ira, yes I do feel your pain. I just got off the phone with British Airways about the real possibility of cancelling an upcoming flight and two ClubWorld tckets and asked what, if any credit I might get, exact cancellation fees, etc., and was told, "You'll have to call back after 48 hours and then we'll know."
Bottom line, even though I am probably already dealing with companies who routinely do the same thing knowing it is a Pullman which I believe is part of the Accor group makes me reluctant to deal with any of them.
And Ira, yes I do feel your pain. I just got off the phone with British Airways about the real possibility of cancelling an upcoming flight and two ClubWorld tckets and asked what, if any credit I might get, exact cancellation fees, etc., and was told, "You'll have to call back after 48 hours and then we'll know."
Jun 6th, 2016, 11:38 AM
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It is a business, if that is "revenue-grabbing". We don't even know what's going on here, lots of people might buy cheap prepaid reservations to save money and then decide to cancel or resell them to someone else at a markup. We don't even know if these were paid for or won in a contest, for example. In the ticket world, that's called scalping when someone comes in and buys a lot of stuff and resells it. Ira says this is a bargain, but just allowing people to buy cheap prepaid stays and then resell them isn't anything I think a hotel should allow, myself.
I don't buy prepaid hotel rooms, and if I did, I'd buy travel insurance.
I don't buy prepaid hotel rooms, and if I did, I'd buy travel insurance.
Jun 6th, 2016, 01:21 PM
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Ira says this is a bargain, but just allowing people to buy cheap prepaid stays and then resell them isn't anything I think a hotel should allow, myself.>>
But if someone has paid for the room, and it's occupied by the same number of people, what has the hotel lost?
But if someone has paid for the room, and it's occupied by the same number of people, what has the hotel lost?
Jun 6th, 2016, 01:35 PM
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Hi Ira,
it may indeed happen that we take your reservation.
We will vacation on the Côte d'Azur in September and on the way back we will visit a friend who will have a scholarship at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, so we may visit him.
However, nothing is set in stone yet and I am afraid we need a couple of weeks to get things sorted out.
Sorry that you can't get a quick confirmation from us, but there is a realistic chance that we take your reservation.
it may indeed happen that we take your reservation.
We will vacation on the Côte d'Azur in September and on the way back we will visit a friend who will have a scholarship at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, so we may visit him.
However, nothing is set in stone yet and I am afraid we need a couple of weeks to get things sorted out.
Sorry that you can't get a quick confirmation from us, but there is a realistic chance that we take your reservation.
