These days, online channels provide vast discounts and offer on hotel booking. I have suggested six practical ways to save money by booking online and offline hotels.
Make Use of Bank Offers on Debit/Credit Cards.
It will help you save some money apart from online hotel booking discounts when you use your bank offers on cash backs and rewards for booking through their payment gateways. Thus, check for the least price for a 5-star hotel and pay through your credit card, which gives you cash back. A credit card will have more cash back offers than a bank's debit card. It will help if you do not delete the SMS, e-mail and offers printed on your credit card statement.
Check Hotel Room Rates on Integrated Platforms
The busy people are the best to use hotel booking integrated software online. Such platforms show the lowest to the highest price of hotel accommodations available on your search date. Thus they reduce your time on online price comparison as they have sorted and given the result to you. All you have to check is hotel facilities and amenities before booking. This type of platform saves your time as they do it for you.
Corporate Booking with Discounts
Your company will have tie-up with many star hotels in business and tourist locations. Thus, you can use your trip as a family tour or go for a weekend getaway trip. It would help if you could carry your company ID card to show at the front desk to get the corporate discount they provide. If you book through a phone call, inquire about the current discount and ask them to add your company's corporate discounts. When you book online, you have to visit that online hotel booking website to add your corporate discount by selecting your company name from the list.
Avail Yourself of 'Cash Back' Offers by Payment Gateways
The online hotel booking sites provides more than one payment gateway to pay online users. It will help to check cashback offers on your unified payment interface or UPI payments. You will be registered with a 3 to 4 UPI system. Check for the offers before booking. They give vast cashback when the payment amount is high. Thus, you will get the online booking discounts and the cashback by UPI for using that UPI payment. Such cashback will be directly credited to your bank account.
Make Use of Frequent-flyer Programs
The business travellers, corporate team, and others who fly frequently will get rewards, discounts and offers from airliners. Thus, check for the free hotel stay offer. Next time you book a flight, make use of such an offer and stay nearby the airport. They do give discounts on car rental. To avail of such a free offer, you must have a miles reward point or how many you have booked with that airliner.
Check for 'Hidden Rooms'
Peak season or offseason, there will be one or more "hidden" rooms which are not updated on online hotel booking platforms due to cancellation, a reserved room and a room kept vacant by the owner for some reasons. It would help if you could check such rooms by visiting the hotel. They will give such room with some discounts which the online channels do not provide.
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