Starwood Hotels Starpicks are limited time offer nonrefundable rates that you either use or lose your full prepayment cost for the room reservation.
In general, I was not impressed by rates at hotels I checked. These are by no means low rates in terms of historical low rates for the past year at hotels I searched.
Westin Mammoth Lakes = $149. I have seen that rate regularly over past few months.
The Palace San Francisco = $189. The Starwood Hotels in San Francisco seem to have jumped weekend rates by over 25% in 2011 compared to 2010. Occupancy has been high in this popular international tourist and conference destination. I look for rates under $150 at the Palace and they still happen occasionally.
Rates for Colorado hotels I checked frequently in July are basically the same low rates I saw last month.
Westin Riverfront Mountain Resort & Spa Beaver Creek, Avon (near Vail) was $189 standard rate or $170.10 with AAA rate in July and $179 Starpicks rate in this offer.
Sheraton Denver West is $79 and I paid $76 AAA rate in July with day of arrival no penalty cancellation option.
Element Denver Park Meadows is $71 as Starpicks. I paid $80 for a week of arrival reservation, but the AAA rate had been $71 just a few days before my booking.
AAA rates I booked in Colorado typically had “day of until 6pm” or “one day before arrival cancellation”.
Calendar function is not working correctly on my computer when using IE9.0.1. Dates disappear as I hover mouse over calendar. Very touchy feature that I had quite a problem with when trying to search hotels for Starpicks rates. I required slowly surgical precision to move mouse over the calendar and select dates before a large portion of the calendar decided to disappear. Mess up and the only way to get the calendar dates showing again was to start search over. This truly was hunting for low rates.
Starpicks are nonrefundable rates that you either use or lose your full prepayment cost for the room reservation.
My general advice is minimize your exposure to prepaid, nonrefundable rates at every opportunity when booking hotel rooms.
Use it or lose it rates offer some savings sometimes, but the overall savings is generally wiped out after one or two missed nights due to airport delays, bad weather, meeting cancellations and changes, and other factors that are often out of your control.
In the past I have often found the Starpicks rate to be a really low rate for some hotels I’ve stayed. Starwood Hotels seems to have formalized the Starpicks offers into a nice webpage offer, but the savings now seem more like a typical Hilton Hotels sale that really isn’t a sale. The Starpicks rates are low if you were planning a stay, but probably not so low that you should plan a nonrefundable stay just for these rates.
Starpicks Terms and Conditions
- Rates are valid at participating properties only for the book and stay period specified on the offer, and are subject to availability at the time of reservation. A limited number of rooms may be available at these rates and additional
restrictions and blackout dates apply. - Guests must arrive on a Thursday, Friday, or Saturday at hotels over the following six (6) weekends following the Tuesday launch of the sale. Blackout dates may apply at some hotels and availability may be limited on some weekends. Stays including a Sunday night require a two-night stay including a Saturday night.
- Resorts do not have arrival day or minimum stay requirements. Guests must arrive over the following
six (6) weeks following the Tuesday launch of the sale. - Length of stay restrictions apply to all properties. For hotels, the maximum stay is four nights (Thursday-Sunday) and for resorts the maximum stay is fourteen nights (Thursday – two Wednesday nights later). Not all hotels will have Thursday and/or Sunday nights available and not all resorts will have Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights available.
- Advance purchase required. Credit card will be charged at time of booking. Cancellations are non-refundable; if cancellation takes place, guests forfeit total room charge plus tax.
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Mar del Plata
Canada
Alberta
Calgary
Four Points by Sheraton Calgary Airport
Calgary
Sheraton Suites Calgary Eau Claire
British Columbia
Vancouver
The Westin Bayshore, Vancouver
Whistler
The Westin Resort & Spa, Whistler
Ontario
Blue Mountains
The Westin Trillium House, Blue Mountain
Hamilton
Mississauga
Four Points by Sheraton Mississauga Meadowvale
Mississauga
Four Points by Sheraton Toronto Airport
Mississauga
Four Points by Sheraton Toronto Mississauga
Ottawa
Toronto
- Four Points by Sheraton Toronto Lakeshore
- Le Méridien King Edward
- Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel
- Sheraton Gateway Hotel in Toronto International Airport
- Sheraton Toronto Airport Hotel & Conference Centre
- The Westin Bristol Place Toronto Airport
- The Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto
- The Westin Prince, Toronto
Quebec
Dorval
Sheraton Montreal Airport Hotel
Montreal
Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel
China
Shanghai
Sheraton Shanghai Hongqiao Hotel
Costa Rica
Guanacaste
Playa Conchal
The Westin Resort & Spa, Playa Conchal
Germany
Frankfurt
Guatemala
Guatemala City
The Westin Camino Real, Guatemala
Malaysia
Langkawi
Mexico
Baja California Sur
Los Cabos
Sheraton Hacienda del Mar Golf & Spa Resort, Los Cabos
The Westin Resort & Spa, Los Cabos
Campeche
Uayamon
Yucatan
Santa Rosa
Temozon Sur
Tixkokob
Netherlands
Amsterdam
Sheraton Amsterdam Airport Hotel and Conference Center
Panama, Republic of Panama
Panama City
Sheraton Panama Hotel & Convention Center
Poland
Warsaw
Thailand
Koh Samui
Pattaya
United Kingdom
England
London
United States
Alabama
Birmingham
Huntsville
Arizona
Phoenix
Scottsdale
Sheraton Desert Oasis Villas, Scottsdale
Scottsdale
The Westin Kierland Villas, Scottsdale
Tempe
Sheraton Phoenix Airport Hotel Tempe
Tucson
Sheraton Tucson Hotel & Suites
California
Carlsbad
Sheraton Carlsbad Resort & Spa
Emeryville
Four Points by Sheraton San Francisco Bay Bridge
Los Angeles
Four Points by Sheraton Los Angeles International Airport
Los Angeles
The Westin Los Angeles Airport
Mammoth Lakes
The Westin Monache Resort, Mammoth
Millbrae
The Westin San Francisco Airport
Rancho Mirage
The Westin Mission Hills Resort Villas, Palm Springs
San Diego
Four Points by Sheraton San Diego
San Francisco
The Westin San Francisco Market Street
The Westin St. Francis San Francisco on Union Square
Ventura
Four Points by Sheraton Ventura Harbor Resort
Colorado
Aurora
Aloft Denver International Airport
Avon
The Westin Riverfront Mountain Villas, Beaver Creek Mountain
Avon
The Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa at Beaver Creek Mountain
Broomfield
Lakewood
Lone Tree
Connecticut
Meriden
Four Points by Sheraton Meriden
Florida
Cocoa Beach
Four Points by Sheraton Cocoa Beach
Fort Lauderdale
Sheraton Suites Cypress Creek Ft. Lauderdale
Jacksonville
Aloft Jacksonville Tapestry Park
Jensen Beach
Lake Buena Vista
Lake Buena Vista
Lake Mary
The Westin Lake Mary, Orlando North
Orlando
Four Points by Sheraton Orlando Studio City
Sheraton Orlando Downtown Hotel
Sheraton Vistana Resort Villas, Lake BuenaVista/Orlando
Sheraton Vistana Villages Resort Villas, I-Drive/Orlando
Port St. Lucie
Sheraton PGA Vacation Resort, Port St. Lucie
Tampa
Sheraton Tampa Riverwalk Hotel
Georgia
Atlanta
Sheraton Suites Galleria-Atlanta
The Westin Atlanta Perimeter North
The Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta
Augusta
Hawaii
Kailua-Kona
Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort & Spa
Illinois
Itasca
Lombard
The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center
Louisiana
New Orleans
The Westin New Orleans Canal Place
Maryland
National Harbor
The Westin Washington National Harbor
Massachusetts
Cambridge
Norwood
Four Points by Sheraton Norwood
Wakefield
Sheraton Colonial Boston North Hotel & Conference Center
Michigan
Romulus
Four Points by Sheraton Detroit Metro Airport
Missouri
St. Louis
Sheraton Clayton Plaza Hotel St. Louis
Nebraska
Omaha
Element Omaha Midtown Crossing
Nevada
Las Vegas
New Jersey
Morristown
The Westin Governor Morris, Morristown
New York
New York
The Manhattan at Times Square Hotel
North Carolina
Charlotte
Ohio
Columbus
Pennsylvania
York
South Carolina
Myrtle Beach
Sheraton Myrtle Beach Convention Center Hotel
North Charleston
Aloft Charleston Airport & Convention Center
Tennessee
Memphis
Four Points by Sheraton Memphis East
Texas
Dallas
Le Méridien Dallas by the Galleria
The Westin Park Central, Dallas
Fort Worth
Sheraton Fort Worth Hotel and Spa
Frisco
San Antonio
Four Points by Sheraton San Antonio Downtown by the Riverwalk
Sheraton Gunter Hotel San Antonio
Virginia
Alexandria
Sheraton Suites Old Town Alexandria
Ashburn
Falls Church
Norfolk
Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel
Vienna
Sheraton Premiere at Tysons Corner
Wisconsin
Brookfield
Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel
Green Bay
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