Originally Posted by
Beckett66
Can these be used to prepay for a stay, like a prepaid rate on the website under the Black Friday sale? Thanks.
No, I've never been able to prepay a deposit using a gift card. However, the hotel has always refunded any deposit back to my credit card upon check-out, so I could then pay by gift card instead. The only drawback is that if the hotel is in a different currency than your credit card, you will probably lose a few percentage points on the spread between the charge and refund. However, the 17% savings from the gift card discount should more than offset that exchange loss.