It appears to be impossible to use these coupons outside the U.S. You are automatically redirected to the hotels.com website for that country/region (e.g., deutsch.hotmail.com) and have no way to log in and are not given an option to enter a coupon code.

No, it is for $20 per stay, I think. Now, if you book 2 diff nights seperately I guess it would be $20 off each. But maybe the hotel will give you a hassle? I might trying two diff hotels... going back and forth. It will be a hassle but might be a hoot, too.

Woo-hoo! Super 8 in Absecon (near Atlantic City) at $12.80/night for a night. Thanks, OP.

From "home country" sites (like deutsch.hotels.com) you can scroll down to the bottom left side of the page and change to another country's hotels.com website (e.g., the U.S. site).

Hotels.com doesn't seem to be working right now. The home page lets you choose destination and date, but the results page comes up without the hotel names and the destination, dates, etc. blank. Nothing you click on works after that point. I've tried Firefox, IE and Netscape with the same results. Maybe too many of us were using their coupon code and it just broke down.

Yup, that's what I did and it worked fine for booking a hotel in Barcelona.

I love FT.

Thanks!

Ah, you are correct. 20.00 per stay, not night.... . but you can book each night seperately, yes. I've done this in the past and never had a problem, in fact they've been quite nice about it. But never for more than 2 nights in a row :D

Yes, but can you book on the US site and use a non-US card?

Anyone have any luck from Canada? I'm not :(

Yes, I am in Canada and I tried this trick, and I got to the page with the code, after selecting the hotel and proceeding to the booking page, and the code worked to reduce the price. I did not go through with it. I could hardly believe it - thanks to the poster of this nifty workaround.

Yes, worked fine.

It appears that if you try reusing coupons or using the other code after you've used one code it might get all the way to the final credit-card entry screen, then you submit that, and you get an error message looking like "____ (e-mail) is already registered with us" and demanding you sign in. This'll occur even if you've never registered, want to book without registering, and/or and give it an e-mail you know they've never seen before. Looks like the final process is matching entries with an existing database, possibly keying off address, phone number, credit card number, name, etc. Error message isn't what error really is. Methinks it's some kind of pattern-match rather than something keyed to IP, cookies, etc.

The site's also a real clumsy elephant, causing a shaky IE to bomb ("Internet explorer has found an error and needs to close") and stalling at a blank screen on Opera once it hits an SSL screen.