Hotel Loyalty Programs

Hotel loyalty programs work like the airline programs and most hotel chains and hotel alliances have them. They allow you to accumulate points for free stays, for promotional pricing in hotels. Also in some cases to transfer to airline frequent flyer programs to add to your points.

Hotel loyalty programs provide you an opportunity to put in place a profile. This will allow you to secure your bed type preferences, smoking/non-smoking preferences, pillow preference, level of hotel room. The hotel chains use these profiles to ensure the correct room preference is available when you arrive and so they can contact you. They also use this profile to email you special promotional offers and prices.

Often hotel chains have a similar status system to the airline status reward system. Depending on how often you stay with the group or chain this will entitle you to preferential booking, room upgrades and late check-out.

As you achieve higher status level, the more benefits you receive starting with bonus points for stays, access to club lounges which provide breakfast or happy hour drinks and food, free internet access, fast internet access, etc

Take a look at your favourite hotel’s website. See Useful Websites Quick Finder for a list of hotel websites and which hotels belong to which Hotel Alliance program Click through to useful websites page.