bumburuck

I am working for a big4 company and we have pretty good corporate rates with Radisson hotels. Unfortunately, I can book them only over my corporate booking engine, which can be used solely for business trips.

Is there any chance to figure out the code for my corporate rate, so I can do booking online over the Club Carlson site for my leisure trips? Does anyone here have any decent corporate rate (a PM would be extremely appreciated)?

barte

The best way is to just call them and ask for your company's rate.

Often1

Sounds to me as though this is not a standard corporate discount, but rather a contracted rate with special limitations (the first of which is that it can be booked only through a specified TA -- your company's travel booking engine).

I would be extremely careful about going around the system because 'exceptions' are generally reported back to the company which contracted.

Don't know how tough your company is on following the rules, but this can lead to severe employment consequences.

Mora

I'd say it can't hurt to politely ask somebody in your corporate travel management team if there are any options that they could give you the rate code.

The reason that german companies very often do restrict the company rates to business trips are for tax issues. Making the company negotiated rate available for private trips would actually make all private trips fall under a special tax rule called "Geldwerter Vorteil". That effectively means that all private trips booked under a special corporate rate that exceed a certain value would need to be declared by the company and additional taxes would need to be payed - excuse me if I'm explaining it wrong - it's *fortunately* not my field of interst :-). Terrible administrational workload that nobody wants to bother with so the rates are often restricted to business trips only.

Banko

Plus 1 on that, not meant as a "morale lecture" - but more a heads up to a possibly overseen consequence of going around the system.. Rather spend your money on a publicily avaliable rate than risking it.

MJLouise

You could certainly ask your travel agency if the rate was available for private use. Sometimes a company will give that as a "perk". If they say yes, I would want that policy in writing / email to cover any future questions.

For instance my sister works for a state government agency which receives a small discount on rental cars. She is eligible to use the discount on personal rentals for her private use, but she cannot use the discount to book rentals for other people, e.g. me.

serkan

Enter it on the reservations page in the corporate account ID field down the page. Here : http://www.clubcarlson.com/reservati...Reservation.do

HIDDY

Looks like he wants to know the code rather than how to enter it.

the_is

I have access to most of the Company Codes for CC

bumburuck

PricewaterhouseCoopers or PwC

the_is

wp1043

bumburuck

Thank you so much!

EEZY

How about Intel Corporation? Many thanks!

the_is

Intel Corporation - 41943

stephem

how about Microsoft?