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Premier Inn – Travel Industry Discount Rates

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Deal At A Glance

Link: Premier Inn Hotels
Book by: Ongoing
Eligibility: As no Travel Agent Discounts, Premier Inn’s best rates are available to all
Ease of use: Very simple

 

Further Information

With over 700 hotels Premier Inn are amongst one of the largest hotel groups in the UK.

First and foremost – Premier Inn have confirmed that they do not off Travel Industry Rates – however, the range & price of hotels mean you should consider them in any of your UK Searches.

Increasingly Premier Inn has become a leading business hotel – which means many of their best deals are for weekend stays. They frequently run sales and the website is exceedingly easy to use – and very easy to check flexible dates and nearby options.

And of course for those of us about to go on our holidays, Premier Inn have a range of airport hotels, including a great option at Heathrow Terminal 5 for those of you off on British Airways flights.

It should be noted that the vast majority of Premier Inn hotels only have doubled bedded rooms – but unusually most have great family rooms. An interesting note for those of us with kids is that if they do not have Family Rooms in your chosen hotel – you can book a 2nd room for 2 children under 15 at a 50% discount – although only on Friday, Saturday & Sundays – and you’d have to call the hotel directly to confirm this.

We’ll keep you in the loop with any specials that come up.

Deal Recap

Link: Premier Inn Hotels
Book by: Ongoing
Eligibility: As no Travel Agent Discounts, Premier Inn’s best rates are available to all
Ease of use: Very simple

Marriott Hotels – Travel Industry Agent Discounts

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Deal At A Glance

 Link: www.marriott.co.uk
Details: Enter code ‘’TVL’ under ‘Corporate/promotional code’
Book by: Ongoing
Eligibility: Available to active travel agents, wholesale/tour operators, incentive company, commercial airline (an airline that is in the business of transporting passengers, not packages), and Hertz employees. Staff ID will be checked – check your ‘Rate Rules’ for appropriate ID.
Potential savings: Up to 50%
Ease of use: Very simple

 

Further Information

The Marriott group is a global brand with more than 500 hotels (50 of which are in the UK) and locations as varied as Aruba, Armenia, Vietnam and Virgin Islands.

Marriott is also renowned for its agent friendly approach to agent rates, with generally great availability, and a simple to use agent discount search.

Discounts offered vary from 15%-50%. We ran numerous searches on the site and found good availability and many discounts approaching that magical 50% figure. Popular locations at busy times are unlikely to get that level of discount, but 20 to 30% is still common.

 

Deal Recap

 Link: www.marriott.co.uk
Details: Enter code ‘’TVL’ under ‘Corporate/promotional code’
Book by: Ongoing
Eligibility: Available to active travel agents, wholesale/tour operators, incentive company, commercial airline (an airline that is in the business of transporting passengers, not packages), and Hertz employees. Staff ID will be checked – check your ‘Rate Rules’ for appropriate ID.
Potential savings:
Ease of use: Very simple

Las Vegas – Travel Industry Discounts, Caesars Palace and more

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Deal At A Glance

Link:  http://www.caesarstravelagents.com/register
Details:  Simply click on your preferred property and search your dates.
Book by:  Ongoing
Eligibility: Not specified – but assume available to Travel Agents Only – ID Required upon check-in
Potential Savings: Generous, but in Vegas you never know what deal you might have got on the day… Are you a gambler?!
Ease Of Use:  Very simple, just click on your preferred hotel

Further Information

Las Vegas will always remain an enigma for those in the travel industry – after all for many of us it can make up a sizeable proportion of our business, yet working out the cheapest rate can be near-on impossible. For many properties, if you sell the resort, contact your rep in the first instance as many hotels will happily comp a night or two.

If you’re in a part of the trade who doesn’t sell Las Vegas it can be harder. Consumer rates can be fantastic at times, extortionate at others.

We’ve managed to secure excellent deals rocking up to the hotel on the day with vouchers, or negotiating with the front desk, however you should be aware that a convention or big event can see room prices vary wildly (from US$32 to US$540 in the same week for dates we checked).

Fittingly, it feels like a gamble. With the deal we outline below, savings are possible but that isn’t to say you wouldn’t have got a better deal by simply turning up and bartering with the front desk…

What these deals do offer is assurance – you’ll know you’ve got a hotel room at a great rate even if there was a slim chance further savings might have been available (you might also have found yourself having to pay a fortune).

We see this range of discounts as a research tool. Register as detailed below and then check for prices, but also check out other Vegas hotels to see how the prices compare.

Deal Recap

Link:  http://www.caesarstravelagents.com/register
Details:  Simply click on your preferred property and search your dates.
Book by:  Ongoing
Eligibility: Not specified – but assume available to Travel Agents Only – ID Required upon check-in
Potential Savings: Generous, but in Vegas you never know what deal you might have got on the day… Are you a gambler?!
Ease Of Use:  Very simple, just click on your preferred hotel

Travelodge – Travel Industry Discounts Rates

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Deal At A Glance

Link: Travelodge Hotels
Details: No special codes, but keep an eye out for ‘regular £19 per room’ deals
Book by: Ongoing
Eligibility: No Industry Deals, so all rates available to everyone and anyone
Ease of use: Very simple with excellent availability

Further Information

Travelodge might not offer travel industry discount rates, but their rates are so competitive to start with they should still be considered.

As the UK’s first budget hotel brand launched in 1985, Travelodge now has over 35,000 rooms in the UK as well as 11 hotels in Ireland and 6 in Spain.

Locations are spread across city centres, off main roads, and of course, near airports. With most Travelodge hotels recently renovated, the key thing to note is that most importantly the value – with sale prices frequently starting at incredibly low rates the hotels can offer be better value even that a competitor offering a heavily discounted rate.

Although Travelodge hotels are exclusively double bedded, they do offer family rooms with separate roll-out sofa beds.

For those shooting off on their holidays, Travelodge has an amazing range of airport hotels and if the hotels are not within walking distance of the terminal they will offer shuttle buses.

Deal Recap

Link: Travelodge Hotels
Details: No special codes, but keep an eye out for ‘regular £19 per room’ deals
Book by: Ongoing
Eligibility: No Industry Deals, so all rates available to everyone and anyone!
Ease of use: Very simple with excellent availability

Starwood Hotels – Travel Industry Discount Rates

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Deal At A Glance

Link:  www.spg.com/pro to join
Details: You must join, log-in, complete the first learning module, then find the ‘PROLEARNING’ link at the bottom, then you will find the ‘Book Starpro Rates link’ – or if you are logged in – just click here
Book by:  Ongoing
Eligibility: Must present proper identification as detailed above when booking and upon check-in
Potential savings: 40% is common
Ease of use: Fairly straightforward once you have registered and jumped through the initial hoops and know where to find the link…
Note: There is a separate ‘Travel Professional Rate’, however this serves up smaller discounts as outlined below.

Further Information

One of our most requested hotel chains is Starwood – perhaps not by name, but by one of the myriad of largely luxury brands they own.

You’ll probably know their brands – Sheraton, Westin, The Luxury Collection, the luxury boutique W Hotels brand, St. Regis, Le Méridien and an upcoming range of mid-priced properties such as Aloft, Four Points by Sheraton and the first environmentally friendly chain – Element by Westin.

With 25% of the 1,200 hotels under the Starwood brand being in the United States, they are a great place to explore Travel Industry rates – which fortunately are relative straightforward to find – once you’ve signed up.

Starwood operates a SPG Pro Programme where you are expected to join Starwoods Frequent Traveller Programme. You also (as per most US Centric Programmes) expected to enter an IATA/TIDS/ARC/TRUE/CLIA number. With the majority of these being irrelevant to us in the UK – enter your IATA, or some people have entered that of their Consolidators if they do not have their own. Always carry ID on check-in (business cards / letter of employment on headed notepaper).

After signing up – head to the Pro Learning Section where you must pass the straightforward Loyalty and Brands section – this is essential to get access to StarPro rates.

And it’s well worth it. For example – we found the W Hotel in Leicester Square at a 40% saving.

It should also be mentioned that Starwood also offers a secondary ‘Travel Professional Rate’, but this was vastly inferior in price and availability compared to the Star Pro rates in every case we examined – so we recommend you spend a bit more time going through the Starwood training programme to access the better rates.

Deal Recap

Link:  www.spg.com/pro to join
Details: You must join, log-in, complete the first learning module, then find the ‘PROLEARNING’ link at the bottom, then you will find the ‘Book Starpro Rates link’ – or if you are logged in – just click here
Book by:  Ongoing
Eligibility: Must present proper identification as detailed above when booking and upon check-in
Potential savings: 40% is common
Ease of use: Fairly straightforward once you have registered and jumped through the initial hoops and know where to find the link…
Note: There is a separate ‘Travel Professional Rate’, however this serves up smaller discounts as outlined below.

Rotana Hotels – Travel Industry Discount Rates in Dubai

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Deal At A Glance

Link: http://www.rotana.com 
Details: Click Options, and enter ‘TI’ in the IATA / Agent box (NOT the Promo Code box)
Book By: Ongoing.
Eligibility: A valid Airline or Travel Industry ID should be presented upon check-in to avail this special rate.
Potential Savings: We found around 35% was common
Ease of Use: Rotana hotels typically exclude taxes & charges (which vary, but tend to be around 20%). Note in Dubai a tourism fee of about AED 15 per night is payable locally.

 

Further Information

Rotana operate throughout the Middle East / Arabian Gulf, but predominantly in Dubai

They have hotels in some of the more ‘untouristy’ locations but also cater for more mainstream destinations – such as Qatar, Egypt and 15 hotels in the ever popular Dubai.

We ran some searches on Dubai to see what level of discount is possible. At the Amwaj Rotana in (not on) Jumeirah Beach we found healthy 33% savings.

For the Rose Rayhaan, the second tallest hotel in the world at 333 metres, we saw 35% available as a discount.

 

Deal Recap

Link: http://www.rotana.com 
Details: Click Options, and enter ‘TI’ in the IATA / Agent box (NOT the Promo Code box)
Book By: Ongoing.
Eligibility: A valid Airline or Travel Industry ID should be presented upon check-in to avail this special rate.
Potential Savings: We found around 35% was common
Ease of Use: Rotana hotels typically exclude taxes & charges (which vary, but tend to be around 20%). Note in Dubai a tourism fee of about AED 15 per night is payable locally.

Anantara Hotels – Travel Industry Discount Information

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The Deal At A Glance

Link: Anantara Hotels
Details: Enter ‘TIR’ in the Promotion Code Box
Book By: Ongoing
Eligibility: Valid for travel agents or airline employees. ID can and will be requested at check-in.
Ease Of Use: Very easy, how every Travel Industry Rate should be!

 

Further Details

We love Anantara Hotels, whether you chose a villa or suite and in any location, the feel is always luxurious and relaxed.

Anantara (and it’s other brands including Avani) have a number of hotels in Thailand – from all Pool Villa Anantara Rasananda on Koh Phangan to great family accommodation at the Anantara Baan Rajprasong in Bangkok. They also have fantastic hotels in other countries – from Bali to Mozambique!

What we also love is how easy it is to take advantage of their generous offers available to travel industry employees.

You simply go to their site, search for a location and dates and then apply the code in the promotions box. Job done.

We recommend having two tabs open, put the promotion code in one and then do the exact same search only without the code, this is the easiest way to get a sense of how much you are saving. It is not uncommon to find savings of well beyond 30%.

Please let us know how you get on with this discount in the comments section of this page – what’s your favourite Anantara getaway?

 

Deal Recap

Link: Anantara Hotels
Details: Enter ‘TIR’ in the Promotion Code Box
Book By: Ongoing
Eligibility: Valid for travel agents or airline employees. ID can and will be requested at check-in.
Ease Of Use: Very easy, how every Travel Industry Rate should be!

NH Hotels – Travel Industry Discounts in Spain, Italy and more

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Deal At A Glance

Link: http://www.nh-hotels.com/travel-agents/signup
Details: Dedicated Travel Industry Page allowing straightforward online booking of Industry Rates. However you much register in advance.
Book by: Ongoing.
Eligibility: This rate can only be booked by Travel Industry Employees and identification will be checked.
Potential savings: 40% is common
Ease Of Use: Straightforward once registered.

Further Information

NH Hotels are one of the world’s largest hotel chains with 363 hotels worldwide – predominantly in the Americas and Europe. Most are 3* & 4* Urban hotels.

The majority of the hotels are in Spain, Italy & Germany, with some interesting properties in Argentina and Mexico.

However they are also worth checking out for their single property countries – with the NH London Kensington and Jolly Madison Towers in New York, and the stand out NH Lord Charles in the wine country just outside Cape Town.

To take advantage of travel industry savings  you register in advance – but once you approved, the travel agents section of their website makes booking very simple. Discounts of 40% are common – and they handily place the agent rate against normal rates so you can see you are making a genuine saving.

It’s worth registering in advance even if you do not have a trip planned as it can take up to seven days to be approved.

Deal Recap

Link: http://www.nh-hotels.com/travel-agents/signup
Details: Dedicated Travel Industry Page allowing straightforward online booking of Industry Rates. However you much register in advance.
Book by: Ongoing.
Eligibility: This rate can only be booked by Travel Industry Employees and identification will be checked.
Potential savings: 40% is common
Ease Of Use: Straightforward once registered.

OMNI Hotels – Travel Industry Discounts in United States

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Deal At A Glance:

Details: Sadly, no current deals. We will update this page and and when OMNI relaunch a travel industry reduced rate service.

 

Further Information:

We are hopeful OMNI Hotels we bring back their popular travel industry discount rates, not least because generous discounts were available at their luxury hotels.

Not sure who OMNI are? They are a large luxury hotel brand based in the U.S.

In fact of their 60 hotels – only 4 are not U.S based – 1 in Quebec, 1 in Ontario, and what may be of interest – 2 in Cancun. The hotels are largely Southern focussed – as they are based out of Texas.

Rather than mundane business hotels, OMNI have a focus on ‘themes’, these including Golf, Beach, Spa, Ski and Tennis – so make for great destination hotels.

Deal Recap

Details: Sadly, no current deals. We will update this page and and when OMNI relaunch a travel industry reduced rate service.

Amari Hotels, The Mosaic Collection and Onyx Hospitality – Travel Industry Discounts

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The Onyx Hospitality Group includes a number of hotel brands, namely Amari Hotels, OZO, Shama, YOO Collection, YOO 2, The Mosaic Collection and Breeze Spar.

We now have a deal for Amari Hotels which you can read about, or the details are below.

For the rest of the hotel brands within the group, the best bet is to head to the vanilla special offers page, though discounts are more in the range of 10 to 15% than 50%.

Deal At A Glance:

(Applies to Amari Hotels)

Link: Amari Hotels
Details: Head to the link above and enter ‘industry’ in the promo code box. Then just search for hotels, dates etc as normal. When the results came through, we then ordered by price which made the travel industry rate more prominent, bringing it to the top of the page.
Book By: Ongoing, the rates we saw also included .
Eligibility: Valid for travel agents or airline employees. ID can be requested at check-in.
Potential Savings: Amari have advertised savings of up to 50%. The first search we tried brought up a 35% saving spot good discounts clearly available.
Ease Of Use: Straightforward and there appears to be excellent availability.