Hermitage Bay, an SLH Hotel in Antigua is one of the most expensive hotels in the Hilton portfolio, with standard rooms going for over $3,200 per night (before taxes and fees) in the high season.
I’m planning on visiting this property next year — either for Thanksgiving or Christmas — and luckily booked the stay 10 days ago, where I was able to get five nights at 130,000 Hilton Honors points per night with the 5th night free, coming out to 520,000 Hilton Honors points total.
I decided to check to see if there were other available dates and discovered that the property is now selling standard rooms for 150,000 Hilton Honors points per night, a roughly 15.4% increase.
I’m not thrilled about this increase, but I’m also not surprised. The cash rate for the same five nights would be a whopping $18,656.75. Additionally, the hotel is an all-inclusive (and from the reviews, it doesn’t seem like it’s the type of all-inclusive with subpar food and wine — instead, the food and wine gets rave reviews by guests).
Additionally, the hotel recently went through renovations, including updating the base Garden Pool Villa Suite with its own private pool, which I think alone can justify the 20,000 points per night price hike.
I am curious if other hotels in the Hilton portfolio also increased their reward pricing, but I wasn’t able to find any after searching for a few.
Have you seen reward redemption prices go up at any other Hilton hotels? Let me know in the comments.
