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Originally Posted by TheKnife
I got a pihilly hotel during a conferece weekend $10 cheaper than any online rate by calling the hotel. Thanks for the suggestion
Next time, book online and then call the hotel. If you get a better rate, submit a claim under the Best Rate Guarantee and get the cheaper rate with a further 25% off.
Next time, book online and then call the hotel. If you get a better rate, submit a claim under the Best Rate Guarantee and get the cheaper rate with a further 25% off.
According to the rules I didn;t qualify as the online rate was a AAA rate
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I'm going to SFO next week and checking rates. I entered the code "COR" thinking that's the generic corporate code, and I got a rate that I can't find any other way. Does anyone know what COR stands for and if I'd need ID?
The list reads CRP for corporate, which is $39. more per night.
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I'm pretty sure COR is a generic corporate code. Often when you are at a property's home page and you click 'Deals at this hotel', one of the links is 'Corporate/promotional code'. Clicking it automatically inserts COR into the box.
From recent e-mail. The RVJ rate at Renaissance through December 30, nets you free breakfast for 2 (the hotel I checked it also included breakfast for kids under 12), and an upgraded room (who's interpretation?), must pay with Visa. I used it to rebook a room for Labor Day weekend, that I had to break up into 2 reservations before because of rate change and got this rate for all 3 nights. Saved me about $100 on this reservation.
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RVJ is a beauty - I just rebooked a couple of fall trips using this code. My rates actually didn't change much at all, but this code eliminates the ambiguity around breakfast certs when the lounge is closed.
For someone not already Gold/Plat, it's even better as you'll probably get some sort of upgrade. (I'm going to assume the code doesn't do anything upgrade-wise for Golds/Plats.)
I don't understand why all of you are waxing poetic about RVJ?
Sure, if you want breakfast and perhaps an upgrade, it is fine, but especially for Gold or Plat members who may get this -- depending on the hotel -- why is not the competing R6M code viewed in a lesser light?
I just checked DC properties around Labor Day, and both codes yield the same price.
I don't know about you, but I would rather have the saavy savings bonus bucks -- espescially if staying at the Downtown DC Renn whose lounge is open on weekends, than to get a free breakfast (which the lounge would supply, anyway) and an upgrade, but no $100 bonus bucks savings certificate!
If you are not sure if you will get a free breakfast on the weekends, contact the hotel and get the name of the person if they tell you that you would get it if you are a Gold or Plat member -- it is that easy.
Just checked LPR rates with a CY hotel in Europe, and it comes up with the following:
"SPECIAL RATE * MANAGEMENT APPROVED * INCL BRFST"
No mentioning of anything to be shown in the rate rules either...can I safely assume I can book this rate (which is about 1/3 cheaper than the regular rate and additionally includes breakfast), or should I stray away from that (which in return means I stay at a different hotel)...
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Originally Posted by djohannw
Just checked LPR rates with a CY hotel in Europe, and it comes up with the following:
"SPECIAL RATE * MANAGEMENT APPROVED * INCL BRFST"
No mentioning of anything to be shown in the rate rules either...can I safely assume I can book this rate (which is about 1/3 cheaper than the regular rate and additionally includes breakfast), or should I stray away from that (which in return means I stay at a different hotel)...
Greetings - Dirk
1) LPR rates aren't publically available
2) if you have been approved for the rate then feel free, otherwise expect to pay the rate of the day when you arrive
I beg to disagree on LPR not being publically available. Quite often it's a promo a hotel has going locally - REN Hthrow comes to mine, as well as others. But I DO agree w/ socrates that the above example definitely isn't a publically available one if it requires management approval. I mean, use some common sense!
I beg to disagree on LPR not being publically available. Quite often it's a promo a hotel has going locally - REN Hthrow comes to mine, as well as others. But I DO agree w/ socrates that the above example definitely isn't a publically available one if it requires management approval. I mean, use some common sense!
Well, from a formal view of things it say "management approved", so the approval for this special rate could be considered generally given. I would think different if it said "approval required" or something to that meaning...
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Personally, if one uses any rate that mentions "managment", I would suggest calling the hotel and verifying that the rate is in fact publicly usable. It is better to be safe than sorry.
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