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Old Mar 15, 2011 | 10:08 pm
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Originally Posted by Hosserunda
Hi all,

I wonder if hotels (in this case Crown Plaza) "overbooks" their facilities in the same way airlines do. If a hotel is booked out on their website, does it mean they really sold the exact number of rooms in each category they have? Or is it possible that they sold more basic rooms and already planned room upgrades to suites for some customers?

Just curious...

Thanks.
IMO there are quite a few third party websites advertising the same rooms.. sometimes they may find that they hotel is overbooked, but probably because administration didn't reign in the inventory with third party websites before it's too late.
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