Online Travel Booking and Bidding Agencies - Expedia Elite Plus Status Qualification & Benefits

Welcome to Expedia Elite Plus

Expedia® Elite Plus™ is a new upgraded account status for our best customers. To qualify, members must stay a minimum of 12 hotel nights, or complete at least $10,000 worth of travel booked on Expedia within a calendar year.1



Enjoy Elite Plus Privileges

No Expedia change or cancellation fees2

Makes travel more flexible to meet your needs.
Priority call handling

Talk directly with an Elite Plus travel specialist.
First access to great deals

Be first in line to book upcoming Expedia special deals.
Exclusive discounts

Get Expedia® Friends and Family rates on activities, tickets, and tours.3
No cost to enroll

Upgrade is automatic once you qualify.

1Travel must be completed between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008. Cruise bookings do not apply towards Elite Plus membership qualification.

2Waiver of change or cancellation fees applies to Expedia fees on travel. Waiver does not apply to carrier, property and other provider fees. To waive Expedia fees, you must call 1-800-397-1207 to change or cancel your booking. Fees will not be waived if you change or cancel online. Offer valid for designated customers only and is nontransferable.

3Expedia Local Expert™ discounts applied where available and will vary by market and product. Friends & Family pricing will never exceed retail rates.

4Your login access information was sent to the e-mail address you use for your Expedia.com account. If you did not receive your login information, please call 1-800-397-1207.

This is an April Fool article, right? Like Expedia could possibly match the perks and swag of an airline or hotel loyalty program? I was expecting at least a free Expedia baggage tag and a promise to try and return any lost articles that are attached to the tag.

What is the Expedia change/cxl fee (the only chg/cxl fee that's waived)? $5.99?? If Expedia would get the airlines on board and negotiate the airline change fee down to something only halfway unreasonable, they'd get my vote. And you have to call a special number to cxl instead of doing it on the website? That's so Web 0.1 .

What other non-perks could Expedia come up with? Let's brainstorm.
-- An Expedia Club located within two miles of the airport featuring free warm diet soda and old copies of National Geographic.
-- Discounts on Microsoft Vista. Hold it a minute, Bill sold the company to Barry eight years ago.
-- A free concert by the barbershop quartet from the Expedia commercials, featuring their greatest hit, "Dot Commmmm"

And the most valuable perk of all: Elites get to talk to a native English speaker who is not reading a script.

This is an April Fool article, right? Like Expedia could possibly match the perks and swag of an airline or hotel loyalty program? I was expecting at least a free Expedia baggage tag and a promise to try and return any lost articles that are attached to the tag.
There really don't seem to be any meaningful benefits beyond the old VIP program that I was already a part of (dedicated phone # answered right away by an English spaker, dedicated email address for customer service, waiver of change fees).

What is the Expedia change/cxl fee (the only chg/cxl fee that's waived)? $5.99?? $30 I think (which is like, why would you ever contact Expedia to make a change instead of an airline directly??)

[quote]But the program does include Randy's MileageManager for free. Honestly I prefer to use Deskport/Mileport for tracking my miles only because MileageManager only appears to update account balances on a rolling seven day cycle. But I've signed up for MileageManager on the guess/assumption that Randy gets paid by Expedia for each signup. ;)

If the Expedia gnome -- oops, that is Travelocity :D -- could have this come with airline or hotel elite status, then it would be worthwhile beyond the savings from a waiver of Expedia's cancellation fee.

I've spent well over $300k on Expedia (and probably close to that on Orbitz), that really should count for something (hint: this ain't it).

I got in the mail a little package from expedia welcoming me to "elite plus" status... It has a yellow leather luggage tag as a present and also a card reflecting status. Funny thing is I only used expedia for error fares (AA to ex-LHR F, CMB deals). I did buy some hotel time this summer at "El Hotel Pacha" in IBZ through them but other than that Im not sure why they would target me...

Well, their stated criteria is more than 10k in spend or 12 hotel nights, IIRC?

Well, their stated criteria is more than 10k in spend or 12 hotel nights, IIRC?

Expedias cant be worse than travelocity's VIP program.

Definitely worth a "mileage run" at a few cheap hotels for no reason so you can get the luggage tag.