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May 16, 2006

Hotel's own web site may ensure best room quality

Consumer travel writer Christopher Elliott has come up with seven money-saving travel secrets, including a tip on how the site you use to book your hotel room could impact the quality of the room where you eventually rest your weary head.

His advice:

A hotel will classify its rooms based on how much you paid for it and where you bought it from. Did you score a cheapo room on a discount travel site? Odds are, you'll end up in the worst room in the house.

Here's how to still save money and get a better room: buy directly from the hotel's Web site. It typically treats its direct-booking customers better than outsiders. Hotels will deny they do this when they're on the record. But off the record, they admit it happens.
Earlier: Insider advice on securing free hotel room upgrades
Scam alert: write a fake review, get a free foot rub
Who can you trust online for hotel advice?

May 16, 2006 11:50 AM in Hotelology

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