Hotels.com Australia 10% off Discount Code
Certain hotel chains do not qualify (Choice, Marriott, probably most of the major ones as per previous coupons like this)
Book by 2 November 2011 / Travel by 17 June 2012
Works allright, just punched in a hotel in Kuala Lumpur for next year and got the 10%.
The conditions (and hotel chain exclusions) are below-hope Ive added the link correctly
http://www.hotels.com/customer_care/coupon_terms_conditions.…
My buckscoop tracked last month for expedia (who are the same company as hotels.com) in addition to a 10% off voucher
nice.. Decisions, now I plotted a graph of the two equations
Y = (0.6 * x) - 10 MBC
Y = (0.54 * x) BuckScoop
(0.6 * x) - 10 = (0.54 * x)
60x - 1000 = 54x
6x = 1000
x = 166.66
Hence Buckscoop is only better when X is less than $166.66 otherwise choose MBC
Correct me if Im wrong but MBC is better almost all the time.
You only pay the $10 membership fee to MBC once per year though. So unless this hotel booking is the only cashback you'd claim for the next 12 months, MBC works out better.
Beware though I found Hotels.com to track and pay MBC quite slowly. I just got paid this week for my hotel stays in Feb, which was tracked in late July/early August. Strangely Expedia tracks usually within 2 months and pays out 1-2 months after that!
It is 0.06 =6%
ah yes I did calculation based on 6/100 and 54/1000 so it's alright. Error with typing that's all
Both MBC and Buckscoop list 3 categories of cashback for hotels.com
Merchant Hotels: 6% on a confirmed online booking
Agency Hotels: 1% on a confirmed online booking
Venere Hotels: 1% on a confirmed online booking
Anyone know what these mean?
I think Venere hotels refers to http://www.venere.com/, which may be an affiliated site of theirs. But what's the difference between a merchant and agency hotel?
EDIT:
ANSWER:
http://developer.ean.com/faqs/Product_Info#1b
Merchants are ones you pay for via the website. Agency ones you secure the booking and pay the hotel directly when you checkout.
I book a hotel room through hotels.com (thanks for the code) and after confirmation carrentals.com showed up at the bottom of the page. Has anyone ever use www.carrentals.com to book a car?
I used them many times 5+ years ago without any issues with the rentals. The only thing that stopped me using them is the terms for the insurance they sold as an extra were changed to exclude persons from outside the US. Not sure if this is still an issue. The last time I contacted them about it was 2008. They said:
CarRentals.com Support ✆ [email protected] to Petestrash 25/04/2008
This is a policy of AIG TravelGuard— not ours.Non-U.S. residents CAN puchase TravelGuard from us, but only for rentals in the U.S.
But the policy wording still excluded coverage of drivers from outside the US whether the rental was in the US or not. So I did not risk it.
Hope that helps,
Peter.
Thank u…. Will check with thrifty tomorrow just in case
I haven't used them so far - I tend to stay away from non-Australian comparison websites - purely because I think support is often far fetched when its actually needed.
I frequently use http://comparecarrental.com.au - it's an Australian based site and often beats the providers prices (think the have a deal with them) and even beats vroomvroomvroom at compact & large car rental.
DAMNIT
They ran out of a particular room I was going to book for this weekend, could have saved myself 10%!
Make sure you check in the hotel website whether its cheaper to buy there. I recently booked a hotel in KL direct from the hotel, and its cheaper than those published in Agoda or Hotels.com.. And the best thing is its refundable.. So just do your research first
Hotels.com was the worst ever I used for hotel booking. They didn't even knew what they are booking and u will know about it when u reach there. So plz check directly with the hotel as well if the booking is genuine and hotel exists. I booked a hotel through them in New Zealand and that hotel was closed for more than 3 months. And when I reached new zealand and found this out from airport, tried to call them up. They just refunded me and asked to find something myself because nothing is available from their end and they don't care about lying at the first place. I apologize for my language but they created the worst experience for me. I would only request that use anyone else but not hotels.com at least.
…"Hotels.com was the worst ever I used for hotel booking." I had a similar experience with Hotels.com. When I arrived in Seville, Spain at midnight, I finally found the hotel I had booked on hotels.com only to be told there was no booking for me. Yet hotels.com take the full amount once you make the booking, so I figured my room was secured. I had the receipt and everything, but was still sent out onto the streets - a solo female traveller after midnight. Eventually I found another hotel and called hotels.com from my mobile phone as there was no phone in the room and I was not going out searching for a payphone at 1am. They wouldnt re-imburse me for the $30 phone call and never returned my call once they resolved the booking issue (whatever that was!). I had to go back to the hotel the next day and they suddenly found my booking. Hotels.com even tried to short change me on the 'exchange rate' when I asked for a refund for the first night's accommodation that I never received. Needless to say there was no form of compensation!
I just checked some prices in hotel.com, which are a lot more expensive than agoda and other website!
It's hard to beat Agoda. For those who have Infinite Rewards, you get a further 5% off. I think this deal becomes good once you tally up the 10% plus the 6% money back. The hotel I'm looking at is $22 dollars more per night using hotels.com. After the 10% off, hotels.com is more expensive but adding the 6% cashback just brings hotels.com price to $7/nt better than it's competitor.
Make sure you check your price through MBC/BS before you click through them. E.G. Octopustravel raises all of their prices by 5.8% if you go through an affiliate. So MBC's 8% back is in reality only 2.2%.
Thanks for sharing added the 10% discount on top of an already 15% discount, worked out a lot cheaper than venere - awesome :)
Can this be combined with 6% MBC?