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Originally posted by: jenaphir

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Originally posted by: anthony
What we're doing with the codes and direct booking is very strong. Hence, we're always interested in why someone, especially on our own site, would go elsewhere. I'm not saying that angers us, but we would like to know why so we can improve our own efforts.

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for me, i have the board bookmarked and dont go in from the main page so i didnt even know you had this feature.

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Originally posted by: anthony
That's partially what I expected. We have a very involved program underway that we've spent years researching. It's active now, but growing every day. It includes a weekly newsletter with best current rates, including some you can't get unless you've signed up for it. Go to LasVegasAdvisor.com and click on "LVA Gold" sign-up box in the top left-hand corner of any page. This is a good program and we're looking forward to more comments from users.

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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
Okay, here is a way to book that has a couple of extra steps, but you will save 20% over the lowest advertised rate.

1. Go online to Costco.com and order their Vegas.com cards. The cost for a card with a value of $100 is $79.99 (card costs $100 on Vegas.com site). Costco - Vegas.com cards
2. Go to Vegas.com. They will have discounts for multiple days and other offers. More importantly they guarantee they will match any advertised price.
3. Book the room on line using the cards you bought from Costco.

Some of the Costco stores sell the Vegas.com cards. If you are within 7 days of your trip and you haven't booked, then you will need to purchase the cards at a store.

The cards have no expiration date. You may book up to $2,500 at any single booking.


[EDIT] Vegas.com ran a cute ad asking if you are a douchebag Vegas.com Douchebags? They offered $25 off on any booking of $200 or more. The fine print shows this offer ending on 12/31/10. I don't know if they have renewed it?

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Originally posted by: makikiboy
A.C. many of us would love to use your site to book hotels if possible. As others have said, the primary problem is the hotel rates. We can't seem to get the same low rates that we find on booking.com and hotels.com (and others) using the Kayak search engine. In addition, sites like hotels.com gives you the total price, including all taxes and fees so when you book and pay you don't have to worry about any extra surprises when you get the bill.

Grisher is incorrect, while there are many hotels that will price match not all of them do and we have to take an extra step to find out which hotels will price match. Easier to just book the room already.

There are many good reasons to book directly with the hotel. One is that we don't have to pay upfront, with hotels.com we have to pay everything upfront. Another is cancelling a reservation. While cancelling isn't very difficult, when we do cancel we have to wait until the charge is backed out. Booking directly with the hotel we don't pay for our stay (the hotel possibly just charges for the first night) until we actually stay there and can cancel without having to worry if our booking got reversed and we got credited for our cancellation.

As someone else said, when booking through the hotel we can also get their coupon booklets. booking through third party sites we may not get the same perks as someone who made their reservation directly through the hotel.

Anyway, if your site could get the same rates as those offerred through sites like booking.com or hotels.com we would rather use your site to book directly with the hotel but until then we will probably use the kayak engines along with looking at your site to see who has the best rates.

hope this helps.

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Originally posted by: makikiboy
A.C. many of us would love to use your site to book hotels if possible. As others have said, the primary problem is the hotel rates. We can't seem to get the same low rates that we find on booking.com and hotels.com (and others) using the Kayak search engine. In addition, sites like hotels.com gives you the total price, including all taxes and fees so when you book and pay you don't have to worry about any extra surprises when you get the bill.

Grisher is incorrect, while there are many hotels that will price match not all of them do and we have to take an extra step to find out which hotels will price match. Easier to just book the room already.

There are many good reasons to book directly with the hotel. One is that we don't have to pay upfront, with hotels.com we have to pay everything upfront. Another is cancelling a reservation. While cancelling isn't very difficult, when we do cancel we have to wait until the charge is backed out. Booking directly with the hotel we don't pay for our stay (the hotel possibly just charges for the first night) until we actually stay there and can cancel without having to worry if our booking got reversed and we got credited for our cancellation.

As someone else said, when booking through the hotel we can also get their coupon booklets. booking through third party sites we may not get the same perks as someone who made their reservation directly through the hotel.

Anyway, if your site could get the same rates as those offerred through sites like booking.com or hotels.com we would rather use your site to book directly with the hotel but until then we will probably use the kayak engines along with looking at your site to see who has the best rates.

hope this helps.

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Originally posted by: anthony

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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
Okay, here is a way to book that has a couple of extra steps, but you will save 20% over the lowest advertised rate.

1. Go online to Costco.com and order their Vegas.com cards. The cost for a card with a value of $100 is $79.99 (card costs $100 on Vegas.com site). Costco - Vegas.com cards
2. Go to Vegas.com. They will have discounts for multiple days and other offers. More importantly they guarantee they will match any advertised price.
3. Book the room on line using the cards you bought from Costco.

Some of the Costco stores sell the Vegas.com cards. If you are within 7 days of your trip and you haven't booked, then you will need to purchase the cards at a store.

The cards have no expiration date. You may book up to $2,500 at any single booking.


[EDIT] Vegas.com ran a cute ad asking if you are a douchebag Vegas.com Douchebags? They offered $25 off on any booking of $200 or more. The fine print shows this offer ending on 12/31/10. I don't know if they have renewed it?

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I haven't looked at this, but if it's legit and the discount overcomes all their other fees, then go for it. You're right, it's more steps, so more can go wrong and it's more work. For some this might be a good way. Doubt it works for most. Always interested in creative ways to save. Thanks for the information.

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