They only have to look at Hilton Hawaiian Village to see that people will spend a *lot* of money for a week in Waikiki. And I have no idea what the Ritz Carlton Residences in Waikiki cost retail.
Original press release, posted earlier in the thread, says a combo of 1BR and Studio units.
Or provide hot skillets
IMO the minimum for a "limited kitchen" for a 1 BR is a small burner, 3/4 fridge and convection microwave.
Or...they could just charge 8000 points for a week.
I'm confused. IMO Aruba, St. Thomas and St. Kitt's are appropriate based on their relative demand and the Orlando resorts are fair as well. They have a ton of demand data and pricing data to pull from to make comparative judgements in this area. But then they adjust as they have more data such as Aruba Surf Club compared to Ocean Club. The only one that comes to mind as being a little out of balance is that LV is a little high but there many be others.
Oh cr*p. We are going to be at the MVC Mayflower in DC later this month. If it’s a dump I’m going to be pretty unhappy. It’s not inexpensive to book in terms of the CP required for essentially standard hotel rooms.
The Mayflower is far from a dump. It is our favorite DC hotel and we stay both on the MVC and 'hotel' side relatively frequently. It does lack the views and kitchenette facilities of the Custom House but the 1BRs at the Mayflower are otherwise comparable (and some have 2 bathrooms!).
We too enjoyed the Mayflower. We had a suite with 2 bathrooms. Great location and a hotel with a lot of charm and history. I will say, the living room furniture in the room seemed old. Seemed they were going for an old hotel charm style, but the sofa, etc seemed like it could use a refresh. Perhaps that is what DRH90277 was referring to. Overall, we enjoyed our stay.
Which is why we stay on both the MVC and hotel sides. If we know our travel plans far enough in advance we often have our choice of rooms and then it is just a question of the 'price' in MVC points vs Bonvoy points vs cash.
The MVC side was a better deal than the hotel side when I made the reservation. Now the hotel side seems to be sold out, and the MVC side is sold out within the MVC system but you can pay cash to rent an MVC room through the Marriott hotel platform. That's the part I find kind of funny, that the best deal available, a month out, is to pay cash for a MVC room that they are renting outside of their own system!
Doesn’t look like they saved much of the original building, probably just the underground parking. It makes sense that they’d have to largely demolish the existing structure due to the need to support several additional floors with wildly more-complex plumbing and ventilation requirements. But the project description probably implied that they’d just be adding on to the existing building to make the project appear less significant as it went through its approvals.
The Waikiki theater that I remember wad more towards Diamond Head on Kalakaua Ave. Waikiki 1 was across from the Royal Hawaiian Shopping center. Waikiki Theatres 2&3 is where Ross Dress For Less is located now.
This is the old Niketown, right? I am nearly certain that the Niketown was built on the site of the old Kuhio Theater that sat on the corner of Kuhio and (IIRC) Kalaimoku. It went all the way to Kalakaua (the two streets are converging at that point.)
The Kuhio Theater was there until the mid-90s if I recall correctly. It hadn’t been doing well for some time, and they sold out to the developer who built the shopping plaza that housed the Niketown. That all happened in the late 90s.
Cool photos of the Kuhio - thanks!
We were told yesterday first head on pillow is mid-2024, but in Hawaii time that's probably later Fall.
