Too early. They only do it around Summer/Winter. It does work at the Margot (the one time I tried it anyway)Anyone happen to know the latest Kimpton word, and is it working at the Margot?
Hotel: Hotel Indigo Melbourne on Flinders
When: October 2024
Status: Platinum Ambassador
Rate: $220/night for three nights (IHG Member Book Now, Pay Later rate)
Booked: 1 King Standard City View
Received: 1 King Premium (two-category upgrade, received an email the night before my stay)
Thanks for your comprehensive review. I look forward to my stay there in a few weeks time.Overall a solid option for visitors to Melbourne, I'd be happy to return.
Hopefully no tar balls in the rooms!Hotel: Crowne Plaza Coogee Beach
When: October 2024
Status: Platinum Elite
Rate: $367/night for one night. Full cancellation
Booked: 1 King Standard
Received: 1 King beach view ( received an email the night before my stay)
First time visit. Offered 2 x drink vouchers or points. Bottle of fizz and choc truffles in room.
Couldn't accept the fizz because of international HLO next day. Exchanged for a drink voucher.
The beach view was to the side but as the hotel is at one end of the beach I did have a nice view.
Nice restaurant with a beach view, if you are lucky, and wonderful breakfast (half avocados and Nuttella, not together). Nutella is getting rare in IHG hotels.
Expensive carpark at $50.00, but limited on-street parking.
The goodies are the best I've received. Crowne Plaza Surfers was a room upgrade to sea view but only one drink voucher offered and nothing else. Oh! two free bottles of water.
The place has a resort feel to it.
But couldn't get on the beach as it was closed. Bondi too! Ha-ha!Hopefully no tar balls in the rooms!
Did get the bus there? The 350 bus from T3 passes right by...
Hopefully no tar balls in the rooms!
“We’re so beach front, look what the tide bought in….”.Don’t give them anymore ideas @SYD. They’ll add them to the list to justify a new Resort Tax.
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Sydney IC is by request. Adelaide is automatic (with complimentary FruChocs at times). Melbourne's is also automatic. Can't remember Perth's turndown serviceNote that turndown service is 'on request', so you need to call up and ask for it which I haven't seen at an IC previously.
Haven't got turndown at Perth so must be on requestSydney IC is by request. Adelaide is automatic (with complimentary FruChocs at times). Melbourne's is also automatic. Can't remember Perth's turndown service
I seem to always ask for the drink vouchers and still get welcome points.I'm doing a run of Crowne Plazas; Canberra, Adelaide and Surfers. All have different approaches to rewards. So far Canberra was a drink voucher and snack, with an upgrade to a suite, Adelaide upgrade to higher floor and drink voucher. (PS. Adelaide has reception on level 10 of a 20 floor.)
Surfers will be a possible room upgrade and drink voucher, or points in all case. I usually have the lowest room type booked.
Me too. Enjoy! Already planning on using them in Madrid, but only Crowne Plaza at the airport so far. In Europe once invited to raid the fridge, but only two bottle of fruit juice and two cans of Coca cola and a couple of choc bars.I seem to always ask for the drink vouchers and still get welcome points.
It would be usual to let the hotel know of late? arrival beforehand. I have stayed in hotels in Australia which close reception at 9 pm and arrive at 10 pm. They were well aware and made arrangements.Hotel: Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers
When: October 2024
Status: Platinum Ambassador
Rate: DKK 1,171/night (Visa partner rate)
Booked: Twin Standard
Received: Twin Standard High Floor (one-category upgrade, received an email the night before my stay)
First of five IHG hotels visited on our trip to Europe and it was an enoyable stay.
It could have started better, though. We arrived just after 7am after a particularly gruelling trip from Sydney via Singapore and, being the reasonable person / seasoned traveller that I am, I had booked the night before as well to ensure we'd have the room available. So when I arrived at the front desk at 7am the last thing I wanted was this exchange:
Me: "Good morning, checking in" *hands over passport*
Receptionist: *tsk tsk noises* *shaking head in visible disapproval* "You're extremely early."
Me: *more than a bit annoyed* "I know, that's why I booked the room from last night."
Receptionist: *extended moment of confusion* "Wait what? You mean you booked the room from yesterday?"
Copenhagen isn't some small town in the middle of nowhere, we're at an international hotel in a mid-size European capital, home to Scandinavia's largest airport with plenty of red-eye arrivals from North America and Asia. It should not be a surprise when travellers arrive early and, while not everyone is going to go to book an extra night, I'm surely not the first to do it and the proper approach is to find out before immediately becoming dismissive. Anyway, despite noting the late arrival in my reservation they had marked me as a no show and she had to reactivate my booking which took a minute or two, however her demeanor and approach were much better after that!
Our room on one of the highest floors was about average in size for a European hotel and although a bit dated in design, was very clean and in good condition. Two complimentary bottles of water were provided (replenished daily) and while the TV covered all the European bases I was quite surprised to find no English channels, even France 24 and Al Jazeera were in French and Arabic respectively. I was surprised to see no alarm clock by the bed however after visiting other hotels on the trip I found this seems to be the norm in a lot of place in Europe. The bathroom had a combined shower/bath which is never nice and the shower temperature was wildly inconsistent while in use, so not a particularly good experience there. Toiletries were large-format bottles from Apotheke and there were no single-use products in the bathroom at all, in line with the hotel's heavy focus on sustainability. Air conditioning worked well in keeping the room warm despite the cool temperatures outside however user input was limited to three degrees above or below the hotel-wide setting.
Didn't get to have any meals at the hotel although we did use our welcome amenity vouchers at the hotel's restaurant/bar Bark, located in the very attractive and leafy atrium that the hotel shares with the Copenhagen Towers office complex. We got some local Tuborg beers with the vouchers however there was some confusion with these, the receptionist had said they entitled you to a drink and a snack and that is what the vouchers said as well, however the bar staff said it was a drink or a snack, not both and only offered some complimentary nuts after we pressed the matter. Very different to the outstanding drink and snack offered when I stayed at Crowne Plaza Canberra earlier in the year but I wasn't fussed enough to push it further.
In terms of other hotel facilities, it was only a short stay for us so didn't get much time to use anything however some things to note were complimentary filtered water in the lobby, shoe shining machines on each floor and ice machines on some floors. They seem to hold a lot of conferences, functions and seminars so the public areas of the hotel are busy throughout the day.
As for the location, I knew in advance and was fine with it but it's important to note that it's not in central Copenhagen and you're not going to be stepping out and into the historic centre or anything like that. That said, it is still a super convenient location as the Ørestad station is right outside and from there you have both the metro service into the city as well as regular trains which can take you to the airport, the city centre or even across to Malmö in Sweden which we did as a fun trip for breakfast one morning. The metro is clean, safe and super frequent so you can simply turn up at the station and be in the city centre (Kongens Nytorv station) in 11 minutes or the airport in 5 minutes, which in many cases is faster than what a walk would be in the city centre anyway. Also next door to the hotel is the Field's shopping centre, one of the largest in the country with plenty of shopping and dining options including a branch of Denmark's homegrown Costco equivalent, Bilka which is ideal for shopping for just about anything you could want. Copenhagen has some truly incredible bakeries and restaurants so it's well worth getting out and exploring!
The CP is the only IHG property in the city so they do have a bit of a captive audience with the IHG loyallists. Overall while there was a few small issues I was still happy with the stay, especially considering the price paid which was dirt cheap compared to the competition. I'd be happy to return and after enjoying Copenhagen as much as I did, I'm sure I'll find myself back here eventually.
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