{"id":944,"date":"2013-09-26T14:01:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T19:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/point2steve.com\/?p=944"},"modified":"2013-09-30T12:46:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T17:46:17","slug":"bad-recommendation-intercontinental-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/?p=944","title":{"rendered":"Bad reco! Intercon Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"InterContinental_Hong_Kong_Exterior_(Night)_2007\"
\n(T<\/em><\/a>he Intercontinental Hong Kong TST at night, right by the harbour)<\/em><\/p>\n

Disclaimer: I want to start off by saying I was wondering if I should really post this or not. One of my core values in creating this blog was disclosure in not only what I write, but how it has affected the people that read it. I’ve always believed in honest & accurate information, so here it goes. \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, a couple of friends of mine informed me they were traveling to Hong Kong in the Fall. Considering how expensive it is to stay in HK (usually at least $100 USD\/night for 2.5 – 3 star hotels in a really small room) I thought it would be a good recommendation for them to sign up for the Chase IHG Visa card, giving both of them 160k points total. That would be enough for 4 nights at the Intercontinental in TST for 35k points + $70USD per night.<\/p>\n

Well, they returned and informed me it wasn’t such a great 5 star hotel experience.<\/p>\n

I felt terrible. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Especially since I went to the Intercontinental earlier this year and gave them rave reviews on the property.<\/p>\n

They informed me the rooms looked dated, bathrooms were dirty, the free plate of fruit was rotten, and no one was holding doors throughout the hotel. I thought about my experience on those exact things, and have to honestly say the only similar thing I experienced, \u00a0was that the room decor seemed a bit dated on my stay there.<\/p>\n

Either way, we were both upgraded to a superior room, which was large, even by normal american hotel room standards. They don’t list the sq footage, but there was a large entry way, office work area with a desk and bench that doesn’t seem standard to most room’s I’ve stayed in. The room upgrade, free plate of fruit, & free Wifi were all benefits of being an IHG platinum member, which is a benefit of just holding the Chase IHG Visa.<\/p>\n

I checked the rates on some dates in the future and found this:<\/p>\n

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\n(<\/em><\/a>room rates at Intercontinental Hong Kong for November 14th, 2013 as a sample)<\/em><\/p>\n

I’d have a hard time paying the $475.89 rate to stay in that superior room, but I definitely feel like $70 is a fantastic deal for that type of room in Hong Kong. They’re located in the heart of TST, and nothing seems very far away.<\/p>\n

Either way, I still feel terrible.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope my friends found the hotel was a great deal compared to other rates in the area but I’m going to treat them to dinner to make up for the bad recommendation.<\/p>\n

Have you stayed at the Intercontinental HK before? What did you think of the hotel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(The Intercontinental Hong Kong TST at night, right by the harbour) Disclaimer: I want to start off by saying I was wondering if I should really post this or not. One of my core values in creating this blog was disclosure in not only what I write, but how it …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chase","category-ihg","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/point2steve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}