Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self-described influencers

Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by staticautomatic on Sunday June 17, 2018 @06:13PM (#17334617)

That's not really how it works. The hotel puts up the influencer in the ludicrously expensive over-water bungalow or deluxe suite or whatever. Followers book the cheaper rooms hoping for the same experience.

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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by rhino369 on Sunday June 17, 2018 @06:25PM (#17334695)

That would be a good model, but in my experience, luxury hotels don't have cheap rooms.

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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by staticautomatic on Sunday June 17, 2018 @06:38PM (#17334763)

It really depends on what kind of hotel and where in the world it is.

What you say is true of Paris, Aman hotels, some Four Seasons properties, African safaris, most of the Maldives, and a handful of other places and hotel operators.

It's not true of many others, some of which are surprising: Mauritius, Vienna, much of Asia (esp Japan and Thailand), much of South America, most of India, a lot of Italy, and even French Polynesia.

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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by charlesdm on Sunday June 17, 2018 @07:08PM (#17334913)

Depends what you consider expensive of course. You're not going to find a 5-star hotel in London at £99 a night, no.

Then again, it's a 5-star hotel, so service will generally be good (and that is worth something in my view).

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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by prawn on Sunday June 17, 2018 @10:22PM (#17335567)

Or alternatively, the influencer has the grand holiday experience for no real occasion while the follower springs for it as a treat for their honeymoon or milestone or something.

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