Thursday, August 16, 2012

How to Get a Hotel Room for Free

Learn how to acquire free and highly-discounted hotel rooms via Choice Hotels, Expedia.com and other popular travel booking sites ... by finding the best rates! This is not a quick process but in the end you can end up with free hotel stays.  The blog I subscribe to is the Best Rate Guarantee.  A "Best Rate Guarantee" (BRG) is a travel provider's guarantee that they will provide the lowest rate available for your hotel room on the internet, or provide you with some form of compensation, whether that be a free room, rate matching, beating by a percent amount, or in the case with Expedia.com, giving you the difference plus a $50 coupon for a future hotel purchase.  For example, Choice Hotel's Best Rate Guarantee states you will Receive a FREE night in a Choice brand hotel when you find a lower bookable room rate on a competitor's website.  The BRG blog shows you websites that can beat the Choice hotels price thus entitling you to a free night.  To take advantage of the offer everything must be exactly the same.  If the host hotel booking website shows a king bed and the comparison rate website is for two doubles, then the rate guarantee does not qualify.  


The easiest method for finding these BRG opportunities in a hurry is by completing a short search for your desired city on the BRG website using the price comparison search engines (see top of BRG blog). By using these sites, you'll be able to easily compare hundreds of travel websites at once, comparing prices side by side! Compare these prices (from a variety of different sites) to the prices on Expedia.com. The BRG website has simplified your search process by providing you with a step-by-step tutorial to find and locate BRGs.

After finding a price inequality, follow the steps listed on the Frequently Asked Questions page in order to file your claim. 

If you have success using this method be sure to leave a comment.

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