How do Priority Privilege Dining Offers apply?

[Austman]

How do Priority Privilege Special Dining Offers apply with the regular PP discount?

Each month there are PP Special Dining Offers. This month at the IC Melbourne it's 25% off the total bill in Market Lane or Bluestone Bar. But how does it apply with the regular PP discount?

Is it:
1. 25% off the total bill after the regular PP discount has been applied?
2. Either the regular PP discount (off the food only) or 25% off the whole bill, which ever is greater discount?
3. The regular PP discount (off the food only) and 25% off the drinks?
4. Some other way?

It was two of us today and our food bill was about $50.00 and the drinks bill was about $50.00 as well. The IC Melbourne said only one discount would apply and they decided it would be the regular PP food discount, which is 50% off for two. So for us the final bill was $75.00 ($25.00 for food and $50.00 for drinks). I suppose this was ok but then what was Special about the Priority Privilege Special Dining offer? - it didn't make any difference at all in our case.

I seem to remember at other IC group properties the Special Dining Offers applied in addition to the regular PP discount. I thought later maybe I should have asked for 2 separate bills - one for food and one for drinks - if they had allowed that my bill would have been $62.50 ($25.00 - 50% off for food - and $37.50 - 25% off for drinks).

 

[Austman]

Any experience with these offers? I'm looking at the dining offers for Nov Dec.

Gee InterContinental Wellington is offering 1 glass of wine provided you order 2 courses. But "not valid with any other promotion or offer". November - December 2012

What benefit/offer is that? Considering each person must order 2 courses! Choose the standard 25% off the food bill for 1 or 50% for 2. Or get nothing off at all but get a 1 free glass of wine per person?

Do PP benefits apply and then you get the offer on top of it?

 

[Rick93]

No 'double-dipping' in most cases.

It's one or the other. At Sydney IC, I've found the PP discount to be better.

Eg. 2 x lunch buffet @ $55. each. Plus, sparkling house at $15. each ( bottomless - on Sunday anyway )

Value = $140. for two. Pay $70. ( very rare for IC to discount drinks - but they do for their Sunday lunch sparkling offer )

Take up their 'special' for $44. per head, plus $15. each sparkling offer = $118. for two.

But you can't have BOTH offers at same time. ( I'd take the PP 50% off deal in almost 100% of cases )

 

[MelUser]

I think the exception to this is FIJI. Kids are $5 per meal and then parents can still get 50% of their full price meals

 

[Rick93]

I recently had a few hours to kill at dinner time, close to a HI property.
I went into the hotel restaurant, and asked a few questions, regarding their PP acceptance ...

Knowing that a single dinner will be allowed a 25% discount off food, I asked the following:

In order to be afforded the 50% discount, can I order two entrees, and two drinks, or even two mains and two ( or more ) drinks ?

Response was - no. The PP 50% discount is 'persons dining' based, not the quantity of food and drinks purchased.

I was almost going to ask the next person coming along to share the table with me !!

 

[Austman]

I was almost going to ask the next person coming along to share the table with me !!

I've been having lunch at a resort, alone, and wondered the same thing. If lunch cost say 100.00, after the PP discount it would cost 75.00. But invite a person who is also sitting alone to dine with you and the now 200.00 would reduce to 100.00 or 50.00 each. So it's quite a bit cheaper to eat with a stranger!

 

[markis10]

I've been having lunch at a resort, alone, and wondered the same thing. If lunch cost say 100.00, after the PP discount it would cost 75.00. But invite a person who is also sitting alone to dine with you and the now 200.00 would reduce to 100.00 or 50.00 each. So it's quite a bit cheaper to eat with a stranger!

Works better when you have Markis10jr with you and the hotel has a kids eat free policy or a low cost junior menu, at CF Surfers breakfast costs $14.50 in total for us both!

 

[Rick93]

I covered the cost of my PP Membership in the one sitting of dinner last night.

Took up a PP Newsletter offer of 50% off total food bill for eight persons dining.

We turned up with a family gathering of thirteen, expecting to pay full menu price for five.

What I got was, 50% off the WHOLE BILL - all food, plus all bottled wine and other drinks ( including what we had at the bar before dinner ).

Saved about $400.

Food was good - would have been an expensive night, if not for the PP offer.

So, is PP worth it ? Think about it ... and that's just one sitting ... plus, there's the accomodation benefit discounts !!

 

[Jama]

What irritates me is that dinning with my wife and daughter I get 33% discount not 50%. I don't think a child should be included in the count for discounts. Accor do the same thing. Yes she orders from the normal menu, but that doesn't make her an adult and I don't see why the kids menu should be forced upon us or the discount watered down. More often than not the kids menu reflects the coughpy food that most kids prefer. I'm happy that she eats everything and is keen to try new things and encourage it as much as possible.