Choice Corporate code 25% off
 

I ran across this when googling for coupons.

Code: 00803277


Does anyone have experience whether Choice Hotels actually ask for any ID when using a code?

In this case, it certainly looks like it might be valid for anyone who ever looked at a house with a Century 21 agent, but I don't know if these are the true terms of the offer or just a website summary. This language is in the reservation when you click through: "Rate Program: Net VIP Rate - (An eligible party with identification must occupy the room to qualify for the Net VIP Rate.)"


Thanks for any experience people have about this.

Cheers,

Doc

I always use a code when I book a Choice hotel, I need an extra 10-15-20% off to incentivize me to say "yes' to Choice - a brand that IMO has way too many substandard/marginal properties in their network - and I'm taking a risk EVERY TIME I book a Choice stay. That's my justification to using codes that don't apply to me...otherwise they WOULD NOT get my business.

To answer your question: I have only been asked for an ID (proof) for a code stay one time (in 100+) and that was 6-8 years ago in suburban Atlantic City. NEVER, NEVER otherwise. Your chances are good, go ahead and use the code - have a B.S. story ready just in case you have the bad luck and get the 1 in 100 check-in clerk who is really doing their job! (the Organization name does appear on the computer so the clerks do know what it is called, so at least have the NAME of the organization for which code you are using in your heard, ready to recite.)

As a consumer, one has the right to get the lowest price possible. It's only fair that you get to lessen the price comparable to other hotel patrons - and a proportionate reduction of the extraordinary sales taxes in many jurisdictions - soak the visitors, not the locals (this is a crime IMO.)

How the heck does one apply this code? The choice website is wack. It simply reverts back to best available rate no matter how many times I try to put in this corporate code.

Any help?

I've never used this corporate code, but here is the way you apply corporate codes to your account.

Log-in. Click on 'View/Edit profile' on the left. The second section allows you to enter the name of the corp and your corporate ID. Then click 'submit' at the bottom.

The next time you log-in and make a reservation, you should have a corporate rate option under the tab 'select rate'. I believe that most corporate rates are 15% off, so only an extra 5% over the AAA rate.

This code seems to not work. You can enter it, it is known, but after you don't have any specific rate to chose (unlike my usual corporate rate)

Thanks, tried that. It said the profile update can take up to 10 business days.

Well, Special Organization Savings rates (called SOS rates before you enter them, but relabeled SC15 rates after you enter them) require no special setup (just keying in the right 5-digit SOS code right before doing a search), and also are 15% off.

Yea. What he said.

In that case, this code doesn't work -- it's dead or never was active in the first place.

You said above you tried the procedure documentd by lougord99 in post 4 above, but it told you on Aug 4 that it could take up to 10 business days. My calendar says it's only 2 days so far. So how do you know yet that it doesn't work?

This Century 21 code is not a Special Organization Savings code.

My whole points about bringing SOS in this thread was simply that if other corporate codes only give 15% off, then they seem no better (but much more work) than SOS codes. So if you don't have "legitimate" access to either, why not scrounge an SOS code instead of scrounging a corporate code?

It's the claim of 25% off that makes this one corportate code possibly worth pursuing.

I'm not familiar with the terminology. Your post seemed to imply it was a SOS code. If that isn't the case, then obviously my observation doesn't apply.

Depends on if a SOS code is easier to scrounge . I scrounged with not much luck. Would you happen to have a list to alleviate my scrounging fatigue?

It was working when I first posted, looks like no joy now. Oh, well.

Sorry, relying on experience from the past.

I just ran into an issue where as of yesterday & today, everywhere I search in California, Oregon, Washington state, Arizona, and Utah, SOS codes are bringing up nothing other than Rodeway Inn and/or EconoLodge. Further east some Comfort and/or Quality and/or other brand properties are coming up in some locations, but only a fraction of the hotels that used to show SOS/SC15 rates (at least as recently as a few weeks ago) now do.

I wanted to see if it was just the SOS code I had been using or all the others, and I did a search, and found that most of the sites that used to list SOS codes (for example, a bunch of state farm bureaus) had either (a) stopped listing them publicly or (b) switched to corporate codes. (I did, however, find at least one other SOS code and it produced the same Rodeway/Econo-only results.)

So I guess they're not easier to scrounge any more, and even if they are, at the moment they're not of very much use (unless Rodeway is your favorite brand).

I'm not sure yet whether thiis Rodeway/Econo-only issue in the West is a temporary glitch or a change in policy about SC15 rates.

^ That's good info.

So, just to confirm, since this code is a no go, is 15% the best available (if one can find it) discount right now?

I've looked into this extensively and there are absolutely no discount codes (Century 21 included) that work at this time.

Yes.
If one does pay ADVANCE Rates that is 20% off.
AAA rates are 10% off

SC15 rates seem to be working fine again
 

Well, maybe it was a temporary glitch or some sort. A few days after the above post one Comfort property started showing up in (SOS aka) SC15 searches in SoCal, and then a few days later a second one, and then I just tried the other day and pretty much all the properties I used to see before I see again in SC15 searches.

So my SC15 panic is over!

Btw, in the process the one hotel which used to give 20% off for SC15 has been fixed to give only 15% off. So maybe this was a process to have each hotel re-enter the SC15 rate correctly?

The OP's code could have been in the "VIP" (as opposed to "SOS") category. This is how Choice has classified some corp/org codes that bore the 20-25% (and greater?) discounts. Sometimes these VIP codes have required a phone call to reservations. I haven't tried re this one, but someone might.

Unfortunately, as in recent experience, VIP and SOS rates have been the same, making the distinction moot. (And then the occasional disappearances altogether. Can something be more moot?) Some have speculated that this and other troubles we have are the result of the FlyerTalk Pogo Effect -- e.g., "we have met the enemy and it is us" a propos of discussion here. Some have speculated, rather, that it's the loose ChoiceHotels system, as reflected in sdsearch's many valuable analyses.

I can't figure out what you're saying for the life of me.

Anyway, now that we've established (concretely rather than conversationally) that the Century 21 code is definitely totally dead, what is a specific working SC15 code?

Not sure why you would expect someone to give you a code that you are not entitled to.

If these codes are simply posted on a public site, then they will go away.

Oh good lord. People do that here constantly. It's the main reason why flyertalk.com is a destination. What you're really saying is that you want to pick and choose who's in the club.

Anyone else?

We don't want to post a specific SC15 code, because then everyone will use that one code, and it'll get killed within weeks.

Instead, search online for "Choice discount code" or something like that, when you have time to go through many pages of results, and you'll find some. They probably won't spell out "SC15" (because that's a term you only see on Choice's website); you're more likely to see "SOS" (Significant Organization Savings), which was the old name for SC15 rates. It used to be that, among other things, you'd get a lot of state and local farm bureaus in such a search. (I don't know if you still do or not.)

Also, I said "5 digit" above, but I now remember than many of the SOS / SC15 codes actually have several leading zeros (which you can leave off when entering the SC15 code on the Choice website).

But sometimes I do get asked (though just casually) about the company/organization that comes up on reservations when I use the SC15 code. (Yes, my checkout folio often does claim I'm from the organization whose SC15 code I used.) So just be prepared to answer reasonably if someone ask you about the company/organization whose SC15 code you used. What you don't want to do is say "I don't know who the hell that is; how did that get on my folio?"! :eek:

There's differing consensus in the different forums w/r/t sharing discounts, and the anti- has prevailed on this board. A couple of points to keep in mind: The vendors usually don't like it. Early in the frequent traveler game that has evolved to FlyerTalk*, there was a guy who researched and publicized the discount codes provided by American Airlines to preferred organizations. AA squelched him. The meeting & travel planners and the like at the organizations that contract for the codes very definitely believe "the more the merrier". But the debate goes on, at least in this forum.

* Mr. Petersen largely perfected the game by (rarely publicly saying ill of and...) persuading the vendors that if they've set the bar right with their discounts and promos, the more business that is generated, the better.

Well, as for the subject of this specific thread, it seems that all working corporate/Net VIP/SC-15 rates are mooted by this publicly available offer that also earns 3.5% cash back: http://focuspull.in/EBates. You just sign up and search for Choice Hotels, then click through and you'll find that an "Internet" rate is pre-filled in, at the same discount as the others (but with an extra 3.5% cash back). Best available for now.

But is it the same terms as the others? Ie, the SC15 rates have the same cancellation terms as Best Available Rate. And at some other hotel programs, the "internet" rate is a non-cancellable rate.

And how does logging in work? Do you log into Choice after you click through from EBates? Does logging in not make it lose the rebate or the selected "internet" rate? (Without logging in when making your reservation, you won't get 8000 points for every 2 "trips". And an extra 3.5% cash back is not worth as much as the 8000 points promo, IMHO.)

I wonder about this, too. Elites have a broad privilege w/r/t where we can book and have it count. Not sure if it extends to this path.

You should just try it (explains itself). You'll find that after creating an eBates account, and clicking through, you're offered rates that match the existing alternative ones under their own tab, with unrestricted cancellation. The 3.5% bonus operates independently of that.

I'm not interessted in giving that website my email address if it turns out I'm not going to be able to use it. (And I can't seem to get much of any information out of that website without poviding my email address.)

And you still didn't explain about the logging in.