Whether for a party, an after-hour soiree, or some crazy shit I can’t even mention here…a free hotel room is an absolute must.
Do you ever find yourself in the precarious situation of needing a hotel room ASAP but not wanting to drop the necessary funds? Happens to me all the time. Sometimes a girl has got to play, after all. That is why this info on how to score a free hotel night just about changed my life.
Wyndham family hotels have a promotion (aka- LOOPHOLE) called the Best Rate Gaurantee. This gaurantee says that if you can find a cheaper rate at a competing site for the same hotel (meaning – exact same hotel, same night, same room type, and same number of guests) then they will give you your first night free. So, what do you do? Here goes:
- Go to the Wyndham site and pull up listings for all of their hotels for the night you want to party (it must be 48 hours from the time of booking to comply with the rules of the promotion – try for a week in advance just in case)
- Go to competitors websites and do a search for the same night*
- Search and search until you find a cheaper rate (again, it must be for the same hotel, same night, same room type, and same number of guests)
- Once you have it, go ahead and make a booking with Wyndham family hotel.
- Fill out the claim form on the Wyndhamn site, making sure you put in your correct email address (this is how they’ll inform you if you were approved)
- Wait for your email response from a claim agent – this usually doesn’t take more than 24 hours
- If you get it, sweet! If not, you can cancel your Wyndham family reservation up until the day of your booking (with no charge!)
You really can’t lose with this one. You should also know that you can only submit one claim per person, per email address per month. So, if you find yourself doing crazy things with the same friend, you can each make a claim once per month. That’s 24 potential free rooms in a year. At $60 a pop (or more) that’s a saving worth telling mom about. She’d be really proud.
Happy hoteling! And please, Let us know if it works for you.
(*You could go to them separately – like www.expedia.com, www.orbitz.com, www.priceline.com, and so on and so forth… OR you could go to www.kayak.com which lists multiple booking sites in one place. You can even pull up only Wyndham family hotels, and it shows their competitors prices. This makes it really easy to spot a cheaper rate.)
