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- Joined
- May 15, 2003
Here's the latest I've heard. I'm doing a lot of research in planning our July 10-day trip to RPR. The Loew's listed price is $319 per night. With the AAA discount it would be $255 and APH is $223. I went ahead and booked the $223 APH rate and through earlier email to RPR was advised to check with Loew's about membership "qualified stay" with either of the rates. I called Loew's last night and spoke with Charlene. I am a Loew's gold member working towards platinum, and was a little disappointed when she said the "qualified stay" would only be counted if I paid full price....meaning $319 per night. It can't be a special rate advertised by the hotel, AAA, or anywhere else. This stay would've given me a "platinum" status IF I wanted to pay that much per night. I weighed out the pros and cons and decided to stick with the APH rate anyway. There's just too big of price difference between $223 and $319 to make it worth going for platinum. That's almost $100 per day savings that can be spent on fun stuff while there! This could just be another one of those confusing issues that everyone talks about--you know, the ones we get five different answers from five different people. I'm not going to chase it any further........just begin planning other parts of my trip!