Trying to figure out what type of room you’re booking is difficult enough without hotels giving fancy names to the categories. No hotel is worse than W Hotels. I discovered these strangely named room categories when booking a stay at the W Hollywood. Remember, they’re the hotel that told us we needed to bring our party game with us.
Since I was booking with Marriott Bonvoy points, I could only book a base-level room. Here are the room categories I had to choose from:
So what’s the base room? I had to go to book the room to see which were the cheapest to most expensive. Here’s the breakdown:
- Wonderful
- Fantastic
- Spectacular
- Fabulous
- Mega
- WOW
- Extreme WOW
Do you have any guesses as to what category this room was in? Honestly, I can’t remember, but I can see it was a Wonderful room from reading my review. Does this room shout “Wonderful” to you?
Here’s where it all gets fun. The room names can change from one W Hotel to another. Here are the room choices, in order of price, for the W New Orleans French Quarter:
- Wonderful
- Spectacular
- Fabulous
- Mega
- Fantastic
- Studio
But it gets even better. Other hotels, like the W Times Square, have different room categories altogether:
- Wonderful
- Spectacular
- Cool
- Fantastic
- WOW
- EWOW (Previously Extreme WOW)
- Marvelous
Final thoughts
I don’t know about you, but I’m not going to start memorizing all these room names. When I was offered an upgrade from a Wonderful to a Fabulous room, I had no idea what that meant. At least we now know that in New York, the best thing you can be is Marvelous.
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