Luxe travel deal: the Leading Hotels of the World on sale for $19.28
No, it’s not a misprint, the luxe and often uber-elegant collection of hotels called the Leading Hotels of the World wants to celebrate its founding year, 1928, by lowering room rates to reflect that year. Select rooms will be on sale for $19.28. Set your alarm clocks though –- it’s a one-day-only sale that begins Oct. 1 at noon GMT, which means 5 a.m. to us on the West Coast, and lasts for just 80 minutes.
Participating Hotels: More than 90 hotels are participating in this promotion including the following eight in the U.S. and four in Mexico:
Enchantment Resort & Mii Amo Spa (Sedona, Arizona)
Bernardus Lodge (Carmel Valley, California)
The Hay-Adams (Washington, D.C.)
Biltmore, Miami (Coral Gables, Florida) - (pictured)
The James Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
Wheatleigh (Lenox, Massachusetts)
La Posada de Santa Fe Resort & Spa, A Rock Resort (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
The Alex Hotel (New York, New York)
Presidente Intercontinental Cozumel Resort & Spa (Cozumel, Mexico)
Marquis Los Cabos (Los Cabos, Mexico)
Hotel Habita (Mexico City)
Grand Velas All Suites & Spa Resort (Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico)
When: Book Oct. 1, 2008, only for travel Nov. 1–Dec. 15, 2008. Reservations will be taken beginning at noon GMT, which is 5 a.m. PST, and will close 80 minutes later.
More details: You can book up to two nights at the $19.28 rate and then any nights after that will be at the rack rate. And there’s no need to clear your Sunday through Thursday –- this deal is available even on the weekends. But supplies at the participating hotels are limited and it is based on availability. The rate does not include taxes or fees.
Tip: You can pre-register now to ease the reservations process on Oct. 1, 2008, but either way registering is very quick.
Contact: Leading Hotels of the World 1928 promotion
– Jen Leo, Los Angeles Times Travel & Deal blogger
[Photo: lhw.com]
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September 22nd, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Looking forward to the mad rush
September 29th, 2008 at 1:43 am
great offers
can’t wait till wednesday!
October 1st, 2008 at 5:16 am
This is BS — I’ve been on for half an hour now and this is all I get:
Sorry! Due to the overwhelming number of consumers currently trying to access this promotion, your request is being delayed momentarily. Please be patient, don’t get discouraged, and retry in a few seconds by clicking here, or by going back to http://www.lhw.com/1928.
I knew this would be the case, but still, this feels scammy.
October 1st, 2008 at 5:19 am
LHW is horrible! I woke up at 5AM, logged on their site and guess what? Due to the high volume of traffic, the site is down. Pathetic! I will never-ever purchase a trip through them ever again. Very disappointed!
October 1st, 2008 at 5:34 am
mad rush, yeah right, they had their web administrator make up an error page, sold one cheap hotel room, and made at least one potential customer very, very aggravated.
October 1st, 2008 at 5:39 am
Shame on you for promoting this scam. Just try to get on the website. Hard to imagine how desperate the association must be to perpetrate this shoddy deal. Isn’t bait and switch advertising illegal?
October 1st, 2008 at 5:55 am
What a scam the 1928 deal turned out to be, everyone I know could not access anything. I sent an email stating my frustration to the executive team. Their email addresses are below if you would like to do the same. This is everyone from the CEO down.
tteng@lhw.com, webling@lhw.com, landrews@lhw.com, jopp@lhw.com, mcalder@lhw.com, croth@lhw.com, kmoffitt@lhw.com, jlondeen@lhw.com, ksimmons@lhw.com,ckozma@lhw.com, azerounian@lhw.com
October 1st, 2008 at 6:14 am
Did anyone have luck getting in? I’ve tried feverishly to get in since 4:16 a.m. and I keep getting an error message.
October 1st, 2008 at 6:26 am
I was up at the crack of dawn and signed on and tried to access site for the entire 80 minutes and the site was down the entire time!
October 1st, 2008 at 6:43 am
Should be call the Misleading Hotels of the World….never got through for the 1928 promotion…called them and they said they had technical errors but were working on them…not.. what a lie..
October 1st, 2008 at 8:08 am
10/1 @ 8am I just went to the website and it says we will get another chance after they fix the website. If you were registered for the promotion, they will email us and we will have another “opportunity.” Very frustrating…good to read that I was at least in good company.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:13 am
Ditto. Started trying to get their main page at 4:45 but got the same “sorry” message. After 45 minutes I gave up. Later they changed the message to
“Due to the overwhelming number of consumers participating in this promotion, we have indeed experienced technical difficulties. Despite our efforts to carefully manage and prepare for this worldwide promotion, we were unable to meet the demand.
Please accept our sincere apologies. You will be receiving another opportunity to participate in this offer shortly via the email you provided to register for this promotion.
In the meantime, please rest assured that we will not be saving your email address in our database for any future solicitations.”
Sounds odd that they will send me a notice by email then claim in the meantime they will not keep my email in their database.
Like they say, “even bad publicity is publicity”. Well, they have certainly got a LOT of bad publicity.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:31 am
I tried to refresh the page a couple of times after the promotion ended at they said that 3,000 people were able to participate and book rooms.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:07 am
for those who read just these comments, here is the message i saved that claimed that “more than 6000″ rooms were sold during the promotion.
“Thank you for your interest in the 1928 Promotion.
We regret to inform you that the more than 6000 room nights available at the start of this promotion have all been sold. Congratulations to the lucky participants who were able to get a reservation as part of this great offer!
Still interested in travelling with us? While we can’t offer you rooms at USD 19.28, we can still offer some great values, including bundles of 3 nights for the price of 2, 4 for the price of 3, or 7 for the price of 5, as well as discounted weekend rates and other Leading Offers.”
I haven’t received any new email about trying again tomorrow…
October 1st, 2008 at 2:44 pm
I’ll further update with props to them getting out the supplemental offer - good luck to us all who will be giving it another go!
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:29 am
I always try to find the good in people. With Corporations that is another matter entirely different. If I were to give Leading Hotels of the World the benefit of the doubt the least I could say was that their CIO is a complete idiot. If I would have done this at my company I would have been fired the next day.
So for those of you that say its a scam it was definately one thing great SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Not only did they launch a massive advertizing campaign but they raised their name to the top under several keywords searches that are unrelated to their industry.
I received several emails from the company even though I had pre-registered and one from the CEO who is cancelling the promotion till they can figure out how to carry it out. So unless you want to send letters to your Attorney General because not only is this fraud in the US but it also crosses state lines making it a Federal offense. I have one simple suggestion to LHW. Take your intial registration data base and contact them directly by email and have them submit their request to an email address created for this purpose. Then filter the email address to run off the database of original registrants and you will be guranteed your orginal base. I would also tag the document with a PDF watermark just to be on the safe side. That is my advice.
As for the moderator of this blog, if you don’t approve this comment then you are just as bad as they are.
November 4th, 2008 at 3:18 am
This is the marketing scam of all time!
LHW got what they wanted, an email mailing marketing list, a better position for Search Engine Optimization, etc.
A class action suit should be filed on this company if they don’t offer every person who signed up for this offer a free three night stay room , without waiting in line. This offer should be given within 45days of LHW’s promotion that turned out to be a SCAM!
This is horrible and the public should not sit still for this.