Yesterday Hilton made it possible to book the Waldorf Astoria Maldives Ithaafushi for 120,000 points per night, opening on July 1st. The property itself looks amazing and one of the nice things is that you can get there by speedboat from Male Airport rather than having to take an additional seaplane like most other properties require.
When Hilton removed the award chart one of the promises they made was that award nights would be capped at 95,000 points per night, I said at the time this was still a horrible change because any transparency around the program and award pricing costs and devaluations was removed. It really was only a matter of time before they introduced a property that cost more than 95,000 points per night.
Hilton isn’t stupid so of course the property that first sees this new higher pricing is going to be amazing and ‘worth’ the increased cost (cash prices are $2,000 a night) but it’s only a matter of time until we see other properties start costing more than 95,000 points per night that Hilton originally claimed would be staying as a cap.
Hat tip to OMaaT
