Best Western Rewards - Better Best Western rates?

OK, this is my first real post, so sorry if its in the wrong place or a dumb question. I searched the site every way I knew how and didn't really find an answer.

My dilemma is this:
I am stuck working in a small,small town that the only "real" hotel is a Best Western. It's nothing fancy and the rate is $100 a night. I'm trying to figure out a way to get substantial savings, but am coming up dry. It seems like BW doesn't have a great awards system.

If it helps, I'm in Scott City, KS. I am staying three nights a week...Mon-Thurs.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

My dilemma is this:
I am stuck working in a small,small town that the only "real" hotel is a Best Western. It's nothing fancy and the rate is $100 a night. I'm trying to figure out a way to get substantial savings, but am coming up dry. It seems like BW doesn't have a great awards system.

If it helps, I'm in Scott City, KS. I am staying three nights a week...Mon-Thurs.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Hi ICTboonies,
I'd been looking over the BW program after my GF stayed at one for a week. I think you're correct - they don't have a great program. My calcs show a point is worth about .5 cents per point (cpp).

Since I'm more familiar with Southwest (and live in Denver so it's a great regional carrier) I'll walk though how to get some SWRR2.0 points out of your BW stay.

- 3 nights/week @ $100/night * 10 points per $ = 3,000 BW points per week.
- 3,000 points = $15 of BW
- Conversion rate 1,200 RR2.0 for 5,000 pts (other airline conversions possible).
- 1 week stay gets you 720 RR points
- BW is offering a 600 point RR bonus per qualified stay
- Each week you could earn 1,320 RR points
- RR points are generally valued at 1.6 cpp
- One week's $ value of RR = $21.12

I just signed up for BW rewards and they had an option of earning points directly into miles. I chose SWRR. SW serves KC, Tulsa, OKC, and Denver - all of which look like a 4 hour drive from Scott City...

You may already have a preference for other airlines so that may be worth looking into.

Additionally, with that many stays for that duration I'd think you may be getting close to an elite status - it'd get you extra points earned on stays, free room upgrades, other special offers. And it always pays to be nice to the staff for the incidental perks from schmoozing with the front desk. :)

You may check out the Best Western posing board for other thoughts and ideas.

It's not great but it's the best I could do - I'm still learning. Hope that helps. :)

Bob

Try entering "WEBONLY" in the Promotion Code box. It gives a nightly rate of $89.99. Not much but better than a kick in the pants.

There are a few corporate codes for BW floating around that will bring the nightly rate down to $81.99

This doesn't reduce your rate, but if you use their airline promotion (http://travelcard.bestwestern.com/travelcard/promotion/airlinebonus11.jsp) for buying gift cards to pay for your stays, you could rack up a good amount of points. Doesn't make your stay cheaper, but might save you on future flights instead.

This doesn't reduce your rate, but if you use their airline promotion (http://travelcard.bestwestern.com/travelcard/promotion/airlinebonus11.jsp) for buying gift cards to pay for your stays, you could rack up a good amount of points. Doesn't make your stay cheaper, but might save you on future flights instead.
And it can actually increase your rate!

The "WEBONLY" and other discount codes are prepaid rates (pay in full at time of booking), which you can't do with a Travel Card. So using a Travel card, you have to pay the $100 rate at this hotel, instead of the $90 or maybe even $82 rate. Is that really worth the few extra miles???

(I'm all for collecitng miles when I can do so at no extra cost to me, but it's another entirely when it's not a huge amount of miles but I have to pay signfnicantly more to get them than if I wasn't trying to get them.)

I was able to find most of this info in my research. Nothing of a killer deal to be found. This property is 20,000 reward points per night, which is their CC sign on bonus, points are skimpy, and I can't talk them down.

I ended up staying at a locally owned place which irks me because I don't get any kind of points other than CC spend.

Oh well. Thanks again guys.

Nice catch! This code gave me a 15% discount labeled "Managers Special", and the rate is not prepaid. Others usual and restricted discounts like AAA, AARP, ... are 10%.

15% discount means $39 off for a very expensive BW (Best Rate is $259).

Thanks.

Try entering "WEBONLY" in the Promotion Code box.

Make sure you are a BWR member so you get points for those stays, but you can try TWEET1. It’s a promo code if you follow them on Twitter that some hotels honor in North America. I would see if it works at the hotel you’re staying at.