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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.

Millennium Hotels – Travel Industry Discounts

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Deal At A Glance

Link: Millennium Corporate
Details: Register on their scheme then mail or call for details of any offers
Book by: Ongoing
Eligibility: Proof of travel industry employment likely to be required – check when calling or emailing to discuss booking.

Further Information

Millennium Hotels do not make it easy to find travel industry discounts, and the process of booking is unwieldy in these days of instant online bookings.

To enjoy any savings, or even just to earn loyalty points to use in future, you will need to join their corporate programme.

After that, you then email or call to make a booking, so you will be discussing any discounts in this manner rather than being able to search online to find deals.

You can also ave 10% by signing up to their frequent traveller programme.

In our opinion, the best approach might be to find deals at other hotels in your chosen destination and then get in touch with Marriott to see what they can do relative to their competition.

If they introduce a more travel industry friendly system we will, of course, mention it here and on our Facebook and Twitter channels.

 

Deal Recap

Link: Millennium Corporate
Details: Register on their scheme then mail or call for details of any offers
Book by: Ongoing
Eligibility: Proof of travel industry employment likely to be required – check when calling or emailing to discuss booking.

IHG Hotel Group – Travel Industry Discounts on 5,000 global hotels

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Deal At A Glance

Link:  IHG Agent Website
Details: Once registered there is a separate Travel Industry part of the website where you can easily check available industry rates
Book by: Ongoing
Eligibility: Travel Industry Only rates – proof of employment (business card, or letter on your company letterhead) required.
Potential savings: 50%
Ease of use: Once you’ve gone through the process of registering it’s very simple.

 

Further Information

The IHG (Intercontinental Hotel Group) have close to 5,000 hotels in more than 100 countries, given they also offer generous discounts to those of us employed in the travel industry they are one of the hotel groups you need to check out before booking any trip.

Their brands include: Candlewood Suites, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn Club Vacations, Holiday Inn Express, Hotel Indigo, InterContinental, Staybridge Suites with a couple of luxury hotel brands in the pipeline.

Most importantly to us – they have excellent availability of travel industry discounts. As you expect though, they do have strict requirements – and require you to pre-register, and provide proof of ID at check-in.

One of the most important things to note is that IHG Industry Rates can be cancelled without penalty as long as it is cancelled by 6pm on the day of arrival – giving you greater flexibility to pre-book a couple of weekend breaks when you spot good rates. You even get IHG Reward Club Points (in almost all other situations you will never get loyalty points for industry rates).

The only thing to note is that you need to book at least 24 hours in advance. When you register you are asked for “IATA, CLIA, TIDS, TRUE, OSSN or similar number” – which implies that your ATOL or ABTA number can be used.

Rates are a ‘minimum of 35% off’ – but we’ve found plenty of hotels offering 50% discounts.

Deal Recap

Link:  IHG Agent Website
Details: Once registered there is a separate Travel Industry part of the website where you can easily check available industry rates
Book by: Ongoing
Eligibility: Travel Industry Only rates – proof of employment (business card, or letter on your company letterhead) required.
Potential savings: 50%
Ease of use: Once you’ve gone through the process of registering it’s very simple.

Incredible last minute Artic Cruise offer onboard Oceanwide Expeditions

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So, you’re free to travel 22-29th June?

Polar Bear expedition always been on your bucket list?

This incredible deal has just come up for Travel Agents – if you’ve any interest, drop them a line asap! As this is last minute, we’re just providing the details verbatim – contact them for further details or look at the incredible trip at this link.

We make this an incredible saving of up to 8600 euros, but don’t forget you’ll have to book your own flights.

Fill in the berth

It’s a good day to be in the travel trade — and know someone who is! Due to the sudden availability of a few twin window and superior cabins, we are able to offer a special deal on our North Spitsbergen voyage. This deal extends to travel agents who wish to travel with at least one friend, family member, or colleague.

Details of the deal

For our voyage PLA07-18, North Spitsbergen – Polar Bear Special, which runs from June 22 – 29, 2018 (7 nights, from Longyearbyen to Longyearbyen), the travel agent receives one berth free. Those who accompany them receive a 50% discount on published rates (no commission on top). At least one person will have to accompany.

The nautical clock is ticking

As usual, this offer is subject to availability at the time of request. Optional bookings will not be accepted. All berths are granted on a “first come, first serve” basis.

For further details, or to book, contact Oceanwide Expeditions directly. And if you do go, please send us some photos!