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Breakfast:
Paying guests get breakfast for free. If you are staying on points you need to be gold or diamond to get free breakfast. (source)

Parking:
Complimentary (No longer, is now 60sh for self park - Drago)

Shuls Nearby:
Great Synagogue - Approx. 7 minute walk
Kotel around 15min walk thru the mall & arab Shuk (Only suggested when soldiers are present like friday night on the way home)
Hotel has a Shul in the basement
Shul across the street

Hechsher: Plain Rabbanut Yerushayim (not mehadrin)
hechsherim in isreal
whatever your rabbi says you can eat, someone else's rabbi says is treif

If anyone is planing on staying at Waldorf and not eating the free breakfast (Hechsher, Early flight, etc') please PM shimino1

If you get free drinks vouchers and don't use them, I'll buy it off you for 10 shek per voucher.
PM shimino1

If anyone is planing on staying at Waldorf and not eating the free breakfast please PM dragoddfer, and he may be able to pay for the breakfast.

« Last edited by Mimo on October 25, 2022, 01:41:54 AM »

Author Topic: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem  (Read 1160817 times)

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #780 on: January 22, 2015, 05:49:04 PM »
Feel free to share how you racked up so many  ;D ;D
Really not that difficult.
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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #781 on: January 22, 2015, 05:53:25 PM »
Really not that difficult.

Took me awhile to accumulate the 320,000 needed for 5 nights. Guess Its not that impressive after all.  :-[

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #782 on: January 22, 2015, 05:54:28 PM »
Took me awhile to accumulate the 320,000 needed for 5 nights. Guess Its not that impressive after all.  :-[
Doesn't make it not impressive!
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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #783 on: January 22, 2015, 06:21:52 PM »
Doesn't make it not impressive!

Haha, makes me feel a lot better, thanks. Enjoy your stay! We had an awesome time there.

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #784 on: January 22, 2015, 06:32:52 PM »
Took me awhile to accumulate the 320,000 needed for 5 nights. Guess Its not that impressive after all.  :-[
If that was UR you would've had $5,120 in UR. Was your cash rate over $1,024/nt?

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #785 on: January 22, 2015, 06:37:45 PM »
If that was UR you would've had $5,120 in UR. Was your cash rate over $1,024/nt?

Can't transfer UR to Hilton. They were straight up Hilton points.

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #786 on: January 22, 2015, 08:17:20 PM »
If that was UR you would've had $5,120 in UR. Was your cash rate over $1,024/nt?

Just realized you wrote cash rate, sorry bout that. They were Hilton points so value was a whole lot less.

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #787 on: January 22, 2015, 08:21:08 PM »
Some Hilton CC give 3 points per dollar.

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #788 on: January 22, 2015, 08:32:48 PM »
Pm me I can Prob get that or better.

I've gotten nights for 350

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #789 on: January 22, 2015, 08:39:07 PM »
Some Hilton CC give 3 points per dollar.
You mean 6x

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #790 on: January 22, 2015, 08:44:19 PM »
You mean 6x

Thats for gas, but im pretty sure the others are 3x

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« Reply #791 on: January 22, 2015, 09:10:08 PM »
Thats for gas, but im pretty sure the others are 3x

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #792 on: January 22, 2015, 09:30:38 PM »
Does target qualify as a 6x?

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #793 on: January 22, 2015, 09:57:44 PM »
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What's your rate at the WA based on MS cost? +/- $150?

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« Reply #794 on: January 22, 2015, 10:10:55 PM »
What's your rate at the WA based on MS cost? +/- $150?

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #795 on: January 22, 2015, 11:45:42 PM »
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I dont know, but I spent 10k on regular purchases to get the free weekend and I got 30k points. I called and they seemed to think it was 3x. Is this happening to others ?

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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #796 on: January 23, 2015, 12:17:06 AM »
@AJK
I dont know, but I spent 10k on regular purchases to get the free weekend and I got 30k points. I called and they seemed to think it was 3x. Is this happening to others ?
I think grocery is more
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Re: Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem
« Reply #797 on: January 23, 2015, 12:19:16 AM »
I think grocery is more

Does target count as grocery?

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« Reply #798 on: January 23, 2015, 12:20:45 AM »
Does target count as grocery?
some do, but most don't I think.
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« Reply #799 on: January 23, 2015, 12:27:21 AM »
It was not grocery, it was regular purchases online.