How to book at the hotel
Among the many ways to book hotels, the least recommended is the reservation by negotiated price, especially in Canada, because many hotels have abused the negotiated price over the years, the hotel reception desk basically strictly reviews the negotiated price travelers, and the review method is also from At the beginning, the company’s business card was shown, and it developed to the nearest company mailbox account, or it was required to use the company mailbox to send an email to the hotel to verify the body. Once checked, it is required to check-in at the BAR price (the lowest price at the hotel reception), and then reported to the group, the member account is deleted, and permanently blacked out. The actions that may trigger the attention of the group are also various.
For example 1) Check-in at a negotiated price but cannot prove the identity of the employee 2) A hotel account uses a multiple company's negotiated price 3) Use some negotiated price code of the partner company that has stopped the negotiated price Reservation.
For example, in order to eliminate the negotiated price reservation, a company requires all travel reservations within the company to be made through the company's link reservation, and the negotiated price route is invalid. And if you use this company's negotiated price code to book a hotel at this time, it will definitely cause the hotel's suspicion and trigger a review. So in short, if there is no innocent background, it is best not to use negotiated prices.
2) Book your hotel through the official website or official APP
Many people may be used to booking hotels through third-party travel websites (OTA). The picture shows convenience and low prices. But in recent years, the hotel's official website has paid more attention to the stickiness of its customers and minimized the OTA bonus. The official website channel booking may bring you more than OTA. First of all, except for Marriott hotels, other hotel groups cannot guarantee the benefits and treatment of OTA reservations. Regarding prices, these official websites now have a very good minimum price guarantee (BRG) mechanism. If you find that other OTA sites have lower prices for the same room type within 24 hours after booking, contact the official website and the official website will give you the lowest matching Price and give certain rewards:
Hilton is Match low price +25% discount
Marriott is Match low price +25% discount
SPG is Match low price +20% discount or 2,000 Starwood points
Hyatt is Match low price +20% discount
IHG is Match low price + first night free (if only one night is free)
Choice Hotels is a low match price + free for the first night (if only one night is free)
More importantly, only by booking through the official website channel, you can get hotel rewards and senior membership challenges. Well, booking the skills through the official website to ensure the lowest price can also guarantee welfare treatment, why not go to the official website to book?
3) Follow hotel activities
These hotel groups usually release some promotional activities when they are fine, some are targeted, and some are public. Generally speaking, phasing activities will give you great benefits, and public ones are not bad.
Let's take Hilton as an example to talk about what kind of activities can be registered in Hilton 2017 Q2:
3 times points for diamond members and 2 times points for gold members: https://www.hiltonhonors.com/en_US/HHCM/20170425_15194/land
Get 2,000 British Airways points for one stay: British Airways 10,000 Avios
Based on the current activity, assuming you are a diamond member and paid to stay in a Hilton hotel for $100 before tax for one night, the points you will receive are: base points 100*10, Q2 activity doubles 100*20, Diamond members 50% 100*5 app reservation 500, British Airways points 2000. The total income is 4000 Hilton points + 2000 British Airways points. According to the point value, the total profit is 50 knives. It is true that the return rate of nearly 50% is still quite generous. Of course, what these points can do. To put it simply, 5000 points Hilton can be exchanged for one night at the lowest level Hilton hotel (many domestic), and 7500 British Airways points can be exchanged for one. A one-way ticket from Shanghai to Tokyo.
There are also very good Q2 for other hotels, such as
Marriott’s second stay will earn 2,000 Marriott points, and if it’s another sub-brand hotel, it will earn another 2,000 points
Starwood can earn double the midweek double the weekend triple points after staying for the second consecutive night
InterContinental forerunner just looks at the face, some people will be able to get 40K points a night and some people want to stay 18 nights.
As for the way to get information on these hotel discount promotions, in fact, as long as you register a hotel member account, once there is an event, you will be sent back to you by email to register, and you can usually pay attention to it. Of course, using the search engine can quickly lock up discounts at popular hotels. For example, search for "SPG 2017 Q2 Promotion" and you can find a suitable event.
4) Fun with the points system, you are the most budgetary frequent traveler
Having said so many activities, many members should have saved a lot of points, so how to use points and how to maximize their own points is the icing on the cake for your member system.
The first thing you need to understand is that each hotel has different exchange standards,
Taking Beijing as an example, as long as you enter the area in the upper right corner, you can easily find that there are 10,000 points of DoubleTree by Hilton in Beijing, and there are countless 20,000 points of IHG points as long as 3000SPG points. Then for booking this hotel, your points can be exchanged for a high price of 1 USD = 0.43 cents. How much does it cost to earn 3000spg points? A while ago, I spent 400 knives and lived for a few days at a very cheap Four Points, and I gained 4000 points by stacking Q2 activities. So we can probably see that for such a case, we can get 100 dollars worth of hotel nights for every 300 dollars spent. In addition, there is no need to pay taxes and resort fees for the exchange of points.
Award mapper can help you quickly find the integral room prices of all hotels in this area.
Taking Beijing as an example, as long as you enter the area in the upper right corner, you can easily find that there are 10,000 DoubleTree by Hilton in Beijing, and there are countless 20,000 IHG
Of course, not all hotels will be cost-effective to exchange points. I have a price threshold in my mind. I will use points only when the calculated exchange value is higher than I expected, and most of the points rooms cannot be superimposed activities, so Considering the credit card sweeping activity, sometimes I also intend to use cash to check-in. IHG 1pt = 0.5ct; SPG 1pg = 2.4ct; Marriott 1pt = 0.7ct; Hilton 1pt = 0.5ct, this is my standard for measuring whether I want to exchange points.
Here is a section where two points must be redeemed separately. One is Hilton’s recent floating-point redemption system. There is no fixed standard for hotel points above Cat4. Instead, it is based on seasonal floating conversion. This can be said to be an invisible mention. The price, after all, the price of most hotel rooms for redeeming points is constant, so that someone can exchange for a high-value room during the high price season. The other is IHG's breakpoint. Every quarter, IHG selects dozens of hotels worldwide for point promotion, which can be redeemed as long as 5,000 points every night. Many hotels in good places are robbed on the first day of the general event, so pay attention to Hotel mail can guarantee you to book your favorite hotel as soon as possible.
Therefore, the reasonable use of points will give you many unexpected benefits for your travel.
5) What should I do if the points are not enough? There is a way to get it without staying
The easiest and most convenient way to get points should be to buy points on the official website. Unless it is a little bit short of points, it is very very not recommended to buy points on the official website. After all, the points on the official website are ridiculously high. However, every year, major groups will have point discount promotions, such as last year’s 50% discount SPG, this year’s 25% discount SPG, and the half-price Hilton Intercontinental, which often appears, is a very good channel for discount purchases. You can effectively hoard according to your needs. It’s a pity that under the current circumstances, the points purchase discounts are temporarily over. If there is any follow-up, we will also provide you with a reference in the public account.
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