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Expedia has never let me down when it comes to approved best rate guarantee claims. I probably have 50% or more of Best Rate Guarantee claims denied, yet lower rates found on Expedia have always been approved as far as I recall. Choice Hotels Best Rate Guarantee free night came through for me in Vancouver…
My general finding is the hotel chains of Marriott, Carlson and Hyatt offer the best overall discount for approved best rate guarantee claims as room rate goes up and your stay extends to four or more nights. This is the second article in a series looking at the effect length of stay and room rate…
Today I filed my fifth best rate guarantee claim this week for my swamplands road trip of the Carolinas. Another claim denied. This time it is Choice Hotels. I am batting .400 this week with three denied claims (SPG, Hilton and Choice) and two approved claims (both Marriott). As in the other best rate guarantee…
by Ric Garrido
Within the first hour of check-in to my room at Inn of Chicago, I had a list of six room and hotel complaints. Still, I stayed and slept comfortably for free one night at Choice Hotels Inn of Chicago, Ascend Collection during the U.S. Travel Association IPW convention. The second night’s reservation I canceled without…
Best Rate Guarantee claims are one of my main strategies for hotel rate discounts. Over the course of a calendar year, Best Rate Guarantee claims save me several thousand dollars on the published rates for chain hotels while still allowing me to earn promotion bonuses and elite stay credit. Today I experienced a successful Choice…
My last paid hotel night with IHG was at the Holiday Inn Express Tehachapi, California on my way to Las Vegas. It was a free night through the IHG Best Price Guarantee that I paid for with a $135 charge to my Diners Club card. I paid my credit card charge of $135 two weeks…
Last week’s Best Rate Guarantee stay at the Holiday Inn Express Tehachapi had some pleasant surprises for me at the hotel and for my IHG Rewards Club account. I wrote about this Friday October 25 in Live Testing IHG Best Rate Guarantee. Seth Miller of The Wandering Aramean says hotel loyalty programs are a waste of money…
I am driving to Las Vegas this weekend to attend the IHG Americas Investors and Leadership Conference. Yesterday I was working in a first grade classroom keeping it real for a couple days this week using my elementary school teacher credential. I enjoy spending time around school kids if only to better appreciate the beautiful…
I am testing Live Writer on a new computer before traveling to Europe in two hours. Buying a new computer six hours before leaving home and heading out of the country, before I even packed, is just the kind of crazy last minute decision I made. Even bought two different backpacks for travel. San Francisco…
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