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The only reason I am writing about this offer is due to an email I received from a PR person representing Embassy Suites after my post on Four Points, Aloft, Element offering a $40 gas card for a two night stay . She provided a list of 40 participating Embassy Suites hotels offering the gas card promotion; approximately 20% of the chain.
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Value-added package rates are hotel rates I find most annoying. Generally the value-added component for meals, international travel insurance agents in spain spa credit, or a tour offer is negated by the higher rate code. Aside from extended parking rates, I rarely find a good value offer with value-added packages, unless you were already planning to have a spa treatment or golf or dine during your hotel stay.
I read a Cornell Hospitality Research report a couple of years ago that encouraged hotel revenue managers to create bundled packages as a method for getting higher rates out of travelers who would be unlikely to compare the cost of the package components.
and BTW, the starwood international travel insurance agents in spain gas card offer was just as bad if not even worse. the rates on the hotels i checked were up to $65/night more expensive, so $130 more for a $40 gas card. Who thinks up these things?
I got into a lengthy discussion about the shamefulness of the promo at the Flagstaff location. The particular weekend I was there it would have worked out to $5 in my favor after two nights but other weekends were the opposite. Just ridiculous.
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I have come to this conclusion that 95% of times, bundling in the US market is designed to attract either stupid or lazy people who just can t or don t care to check if the price of the bundle is more than the sum of its component.
You think since you are buying international travel insurance agents in spain several products from the same company, they should be willing to give you a better price?! Wrong, they take it as a sign that you are lazy to search and therefore charge you a premium for giving you the convenience of bundle. Example: not even once I have seen a flight+hotel package that can beat the price of getting the air and hotel separately. Remember international travel insurance agents in spain you pay per person for package and based on a two person reservation, that means you are paying twice for the same hotel room.
@marble I have to disagree about the flight-hotel package. Since Expedia allows you to book a flight and a hotel package for as little as one hotel night to accompany the flight, there are some good deals to be found, particularly for Las Vegas trips.
Sometimes, the gas card packages have an advantage, international travel insurance agents in spain they are refundable. The Doubletree Schaumburg, Chicago always has a Gas card package which is typically $25 higher than the advance purchase rate. And I always book the package, because I am getting international travel insurance agents in spain a refundable international travel insurance agents in spain rate for the price of a non-refundable rate.
I believe the hotels do this because many of the travelers are using company credit cards for their expenses. It is a way to get a perk and charge it to the company. Whether this is ethical or not is another question.