$50 off Hotel Bookings on Orbitz Using VISA Checkout
Dec 11, 2014, 10:47 pm
#47
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Dec 12, 2014, 12:05 am
#48
Join Date: Dec 2009
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"Your promotion code has been successfully applied. Select any hotel labeled "PROMO CODE ELIGIBLE" and you will see your savings on the next page."
Dec 12, 2014, 8:03 am
#50
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This deal is definitely "needle in a haystack." Unless you're headed to Southeast Asia -- or Vegas -- you're going to have to get lucky to find a true deal. You basically need a cheap, good non-chain hotel with an attractive hotelclub rate. That's not extremely probable.
I also find it odd that Orbitz doesn't give HotelClub its full inventory. Hotels must have a choice as to which brands they're listed on; there must be some incentive NOT to list on HotelClub.
Dec 12, 2014, 8:10 am
#52
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Yeah, I just mentioned this weirdness. Even though Orbitz owns them, there's separate inventory. When the Orbitz visacheckout deal was alive a couple days ago, I was able to book a room that wasn't available on HotelClub. Seems like a weird way to run your online travel business; as a consumer, I don't give a darn, except when there's a code that only works on one of them.
Dec 12, 2014, 9:49 am
#53
Join Date: May 2014
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I've noticed the same. I was all excited and ready to book until I realized I was on orbitz. I switched over to hotelclub and the hotel wasn't there.
Dec 12, 2014, 5:20 pm
#56
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Yeah, but I think they're now enforcing the March 31 travel limitation. When it launched, you could book until summer.
This deal is definitely "needle in a haystack." Unless you're headed to Southeast Asia -- or Vegas -- you're going to have to get lucky to find a true deal. You basically need a cheap, good non-chain hotel with an attractive hotelclub rate. That's not extremely probable.
This deal is definitely "needle in a haystack." Unless you're headed to Southeast Asia -- or Vegas -- you're going to have to get lucky to find a true deal. You basically need a cheap, good non-chain hotel with an attractive hotelclub rate. That's not extremely probable.
What you describe is very much the typical place I stay on my travels--except to take advantage of this promo, I actually had to up the price of hotels I was looking at to meet the threshold of the promo.
I don't think there's a way to differentiate them on the hotel's end. Universally without exception, every Hotels.com property I've stayed at has referred to my reservation as being with Expedia. I would assume (and in my slightly-more-limited experience with them) HotelClub's deals work very similarly to Hotels.com's.
Dec 12, 2014, 8:27 pm
#57
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: YVR
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So I didn't love the deal I was looking at...then I realized...you can do this over again. It says max 2 bookings per person, but if you're cheap and flexible, book 1 night at $100 or more, then just book another night separately at the same price. Discount gets used twice, 50$ and 50$ rather than just 50$ off the 2 night stay.
Too bad the only hotel I really need now is in Bucaramanga and most OTAs only have a couple choices and are all kinda expensive.
Too bad the only hotel I really need now is in Bucaramanga and most OTAs only have a couple choices and are all kinda expensive.
Dec 13, 2014, 1:29 am
#59
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: SEA
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I have found the availability is the same on both Orbitz and Hotelclub. The only difference I have found, is in the way you search for them. Hotelclub site is glitchy, in that it only searches part of the city you are looking at. Even if you put in the hotel name, it will not bring it up on hotelclub.com unless the part of the city is correct. Took me forever to find the hotel I wanted in PVR on hotelclub. I finally found it by just typing in Vallarta, Mexico. It would not bring it up any other way.
Orbitz also throws in hotels that are not available, but Hotelclub does not.
Orbitz also throws in hotels that are not available, but Hotelclub does not.