In 2015, Starwood partnered with Design Hotels to bring them on board their platform and have them participate in the Starwood Preferred Guest program.  SPG members you can earn Starpoints, nights and stay credit towards elite status when they book via SPG.com.

 

Park Hotels leaving Starwood Preferred Guest

The Park Hotels of India, a member of Design Hotels participates in the Starwood Preferred Guest program as well as of 2016. However, effective June 1, 2018, all The Park Hotels hotels will be leaving the partnership between Design Hotels and SPG. This notice has neither been officially emailed to members by either party, but when you try and book the hotel on the SPG website, you see the following advice.

As a result, the following hotels will be out of the Starwood Preferred Guest on June 1, 2018:

• The Park Bangalore
• The Park Hyderabad
• The Park New Delhi
• The Park Kolkata
• The Park Chennai

Currently, when you try to book any Park Hotel effective June 1, 2018, the Starwood hotel website gives a prompt that the hotel is not available for the selected dates.

Bottomline

I have stayed at The Park Bangalore and The Park Hyderabad and to be honest the standards of both hotels very quite poor, and I was surprised to see them participate in Starwood portfolio. The Park Hotels are all located centrally in Tier 1 cities, and all of them are SPG Category 1 and 2 hotels with dirt cheap rates. This made some of them an excellent choice to earn credits for SPG. Also, very affordable opportunities for the redemption of Starpoints.

Have you utilized the partnership between Design Hotels and Starwood Preferred Guest? I am pleased to see Park Hotels leaving Starwood Preferred Guest. What about you?