What is the best way to get your hotel room?
Getting a room for free is really difficult. But it is not impossible.
It is the holy Grail to travel: the hotel room totally reliable, a one hundred percent. But assuming you do not travel like a professional athlete - or if you have a friend of a friend who manages the place-how can your typicalroad warrior actually mark a piece without invoice?
Well, as with the airlines, the safest way is to accumulate loyalty points. "There is a very strong effort of hotel chains to lead people to their loyalty programs. They do not have to pay the commission to third parties - the Expedias and Travelocity of the World," said Robert Mandelbaum, Director of Research Services at Hotel CBE. "The big movement nowadays is to book in the hotel chain reservation system."
The key is to focus your efforts on a single channel and really resonate these rewards - no matter where you are traveling. Let's say you are part of the Marriott Rewards program. For each stay, you can earn 4,000 points. And then there are "levels" available hotels where you can cash these points to the address. Level 1 starts at 7,500 points and sets you down the barrel: a hotel room in Yuma, Arizona, Towneplace Suites or Natchitoches, Louisiana, Fairfield Inn. Save up to 45,000 points, however, and you unlock level 9, which can not start digging in places such as Boston Ultra-luxury Marriott Long Wharf or thevery romantic Marriott overlooking the Champs-Élysées.
If you are really impatient, however, and do not want to escape you through a rewards program, thereis Another tactic that you can take. These days, many hotels in some major markets participate in the overbooking process, which allows them to sell more rooms than provisions. "When you are depressed," said Mandelbaum, "the hotel pays for the room and for all the accusations to move to another hotel."
Unfortunately, there is no means surefire to make sure you are buzzing. ("It's like Vegas, "said Mandelbaum.) That said, the reservation of a hotel room in an extremely populated business center will greatly increase your chances. For example, New York City has an occupancy rate of" 80 or 85% " In a normal night, like a random Tuesday in October. The weekend, the hotels frequently book more than 100% of their accommodation. (Of course, try to target a hotel really on demand.) Someone gets bumping. It could also be you.
Remember: there is no guarantee. It is a fact that the free accommodation rate has declined in recent years.According to Looking for Mandelbaum, in 2009, 1.3% of hotel rooms were made. In 2015, the most recent year data are available - the silhouette planned about 1%. "The hotel industry has peaked high, levels of occupancy of all time," says Mandelbaum. "There is a lot of pressure on managers, owners, not to give rooms because, physically, they have the effect of leverage".
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