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Old Apr 3, 2011 | 10:47 pm
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Originally Posted by screeton
Sometimes there seems to be an advantage to booking hotels through the Southwest site, as if there is a built in Southwest discount.
Sometimes a negotiated rate (also available on some other third-party booking sites) is included in the search results on southwest.com. It would still be true that the OP "won't earn anything extra;" in fact, the rate well could be a wholesale rate that earns neither hotel points nor RR points.

One small technicality: if motel rooms booked at southwest.com bill as soutwest.com purchases (I have no idea), and you pay with the "Classic" ($39/year) RR Visa, there would be the slight additional earnings due to 2x RR Visa points.
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