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Old Dec 12, 2011 | 3:33 pm
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Originally Posted by DavidO
The reason is … with a last minute booking, FS wants to be 100% certain that the room inventory loaded onto the booking engine actually represents bookable rooms. It prevents having to "walk" a client.

You can still book by calling the hotel directly.
It's funny how picking up the phone is such a mental barrier to me these days; similar to when RC/AXP stopped putting up the ability to view FHR rates on the RC site. I loved the quick access of looking online via rc.com. Even with AXP's FHR engine up and running...it's still not the same somehow with the login/password and other barriers before seeing the rate.
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