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Old Jun 20, 2018, 9:55 pm
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karenkay
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Originally Posted by izzik
Do you feel that you can get a better rate by contacting the hotel directly for a quote? I see the website occasionally offers a specific $x rate for the day, then chops it in half for a 1 hr meeting. Just curious.. I like how the website can book direct w/o the extra back-and-forth of the quoting process, but is there any benefit to taking the extra time?
my own limited experience is that I got a significantly better deal by dealing with the hotel directly, and telling them how many meetings I intended to hold...but as you can see in the post above, my nights haven’t posted yet, sooo...take my info with a grain of salt.
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