Bookings using this coupon are not eligible for Hotels.com™ Rewards
This coupon is only valid for bookings made on a mobile device.
Use this coupon to get A$30.00 off the price of your booking at a participating Price Match Guarantee hotel when you stay between 1 and 28 nights and spend a minimum of A$250.00 for your entire stay.
You must pay for your stay when you make the booking. The discount only applies to the first room in the booking. You’ll need to pay the full price for any other rooms. The discount doesn’t apply to any taxes, fees or additional costs.
To use this coupon, you must be over 18 years old and resident in Australia. You may only use this coupon for bookings made between 12:01 am MT on 01/08/2016 and 11:59pm MT on 14/08/2016 on the Australian version of Hotels.com for a stay to be completed between 01/08/2016 and 14/11/2016. Bookings are subject to availability and the hotel’s terms and conditions.
This coupon can’t be used for:
Package bookings i.e. hotel + flight
Bookings made through Group Travel Services
Bookings paid for at the hotel
Bookings paid for in a foreign currency
Bookings at non-participating hotels
Bookings made prior to receipt of this coupon
Go to http://au.hotels.com/page/au-hotel-exclusions/?pos=HCOM_AU&l… for a list of non-participating hotels. Participating hotels are subject to change at any time.
You can only use this coupon for a maximum of five bookings and each time it must be used in full. After those five bookings you won’t be able to use this coupon again, even if you cancel one or more of those bookings.
This coupon is only valid for the first 15274 bookings made by all customers using this coupon. You’ll be able to check that it’s still valid before completing a booking. There’s a limit of one coupon per booking.
This coupon can be combined with discounted prices on Hotels.com. It cannot however be used in conjunction with any other promotion on Hotels.com, whether offered by a third party or otherwise.
You can’t collect or redeem Hotels.com™ Rewards nights when you use this coupon.
You can’t apply this coupon to taxes, fees, or charges including, without limitation, extra guests, phone calls, cancellation fees, parking, or other charges. You must pay these charges when you make your booking, or directly at the hotel.
You can’t redeem this coupon for cash, and it can’t be transferred or sold.
It’s void where prohibited by law. Improper use of the coupon by you is prohibited and could be construed as fraud. We reserve the right to change or withdraw this offer at any time and to cancel any bookings made where the coupon has been used to make any speculative, false or fraudulent bookings or any bookings in anticipation of demand.
Usual booking terms and conditions apply (see hotels.com/customer_care/terms_conditions.html) and all bookings are subject to availability.
Hotels.com is the promoter of this offer.
These terms and conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Washington.
Hotels.com $30 off When You Spend $250 - Book by 14 Aug 2016 & Travel by Nov 14 2016 - Mobile App Only
Last edited 07/08/2016 - 18:13 by 1 other user
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Agree that this is something to consdier but the current offer is 12% dscount (if you can get a booking of your choice at exactly A$250) and an instant, rather than deferred, savings. Having said that, I believe it's at best a 50/50 chance that this particular offer will work out to be more favorable, given the $250 spend condition.
Generally, on non-chain hotels where coupons are usable, CheapTickets gives the best price (even after Cashrewards). They're both owned by Expedia as well, so the service levels are much the same.
On chain hotels where you can't use coupons.. Hotels.com is usually the best since you can stack Cashrewards on top of Welcome Rewards.
sorry, what do you mean by welcome rewards ?
@spk: Once you stay 10 nights they will give you one night for free to use with, eg; if you stayed 10 nights with a total value of $1000 they will give you one free nights worth up to $100 and if the price is higher you pay the difference.
Just note that the free night value is based on the ex-tax value of the hotel bookings. And when you use the free reward night, its only usable on the ex-tax portion as well.
@Thrawn: True. Just to stop myself from going crazy, I use a figure of 7% of the total price for my calculations/comparisons.
Hotels.com is not the cheapest all the time but i always book through them and then ask for price match so i can earn hotels reward + generous cash back from cashreward (They will refund you the difference.).
Good tips. Just curious, do they honour it (the price match) when a coupon is applied/pffered on another site? I don't want to put in all the efforts but then being told that they won't "match" as they already have this "free night" reward scheme, etc.
Thank you for your advice in advance
@Gleung: They will ask you to submit a picture of the other website showing the price and showing the same room and same condition, just hide the coupon box from the picture and most likely you will get away with it.The main issue that i keep facing is either free breakfast or free cancellation. You must get the same room with exact condition for them to price match, if you booked a room without cancellation or without breakfast but the other website have the room with free breakfast and free cancellation and cheaper hotels.com will not price match it. I normally use hotelscombined to get cheapest prices then i just book from hotels directly to get cashrewards and hotels rewards. I have also heard that expedia will give you $50 voucher if you found any cheaper prices(Which you rarely can), but i guess the coupon will come with very long list of excluded hotels and harsh T&C.
@Bnjam3:
Many thanks!@Gleung:
Thanks again to Bnjam3's advice. I think I am obliged to share my experience.I managed to get a price match after >30 mins on the phone with Hotels.com. I did not use the Request for Price Match online submission, which requires a booking rerference number, as I was not comfortable to pay and book before knowing for certain that the price will get matched. Instead I called the Australian (Sydney) number listed to talk to a CS Officer.
I learnt through the process that:
- Hotels.com honours publicly available (available on the alternate booking sites webpage) but not targted discount offers, e.g. emails to individuals;
- Hotels reward (free night stay credits) still available - got that confirmed on the booking confirmation;
- Hotels.com will charge the full price (in my case in US$ as quoted by Cheaptickets) but will issue a credit on the applicable discount (yet to be received but was promised that would show up on my credit card account within 5 working days)
So far, it is quite a good deal, despite having to spend >30 mins (perhaps 40 mins) on the phone, incuding the time spent on completing the booking. Only thing missing is the cash rebate that may be available through cashrewards.
Hope the above information will be useful to fellow Ozbargainers.
Sorry but just had a really bad experience with hotels.com booking.. one of the highlights of my booking was "free breakfast for 2".
At hotel, they said "Free breakfast" equals to $20 credit that amounted to 2 cups of coffee..
not really that good a deal, the prices are $35 more expensive than hotelscombined listings before $30 off applied.
If you travel alot its better to ignore the code as you will not earn any hotel rewards(almost %10 cashback for future stays).