£1 a night hotel rooms

£1 a night hotel rooms tomorrow - Thursday at 10 AM.

HotelConnect are going to be unleashing a load of £1 a night rooms on Thursday 26th Feb at 10 :00 UK time. When they are gone, they are gone - so get in quick.

Here is my advice on how to have the best chance with this deal :

1. Familiarise yourself with the HotelConnect website before the day so you know how to search.
2. Have your credit card ready.
3. Make sure you know which dates you can and can't go away, if flights are involved have an idea which dates cheap flights are available. Skyscanner might help you there.
4. Have a look at the terms and conditions of the offer ( I have copied them below )

HotelConnect £1 rooms Terms & Conditions :

1. The £1 rooms are available to book online only at www.hotelconnect.co.uk until sold out. 2. The offer is for room only in a twin/double room and does not include breakfast. 3. There is a maximum stay of three nights per booking. 4. One booking per person. If you do book more than one - there will be trouble and we will cancel the booking. The hotel and HotelConnect reserve the right to cancel any bookings which we suspect, with good reason, to be fraudulent. 5. A charge of £15 per person will apply to cancellations. 6. Any name amendments to your booking will be charged a £15 administration fee. 7. Bookings are not transferable. You may not change your booking to any other dates or hotel. 8. 5% online discount does not apply to the rooms in this promotion. 9. All offers are subject to availability and specific arrival dates and travel restrictions may apply. Prices subject to change. 10. These conditions are in addition to our standard booking terms and conditions which also apply and which you must read before booking.

Very cheap hotels in Prague

Just got word that the £1 a room deals from Hotel Connect on Thursday are going to be in Prague.

Here are the top tips from the HotelConnect website on how to get the Prague hotel bargains.

				be prepared with a list of dates you know you are available to travel, remembering you can only book one room for a maximum of 3 nights
				research flights in advance and have them ready to book when you have secured your £1 prague hotel
				the hotels will be available for dates in March & April on a selection of star ratings - 2 star to 4 star
				if prague doesn't take your fancy, look out for our next £1 promotion in a new destination coming soon
				put a reminder in your calendar for 10AM on thurs 26 feb - see you then!!

Good Luck !

Lastminute.com secret hotels review

"Top Secret Hotels"

Last weekend I booked a "top secret" hotel with Lastminute.com

I was on their website because they were running a "when it's gone it's gone" promo and had an amazing 5 star hotel in Madrid with 50% off. I was on the site at 10:00 - the official start time - and was unable to find any availability at the advertised hotel so they were lucky to keep me on the site but I guess this is how they make money out of these promotions.

So, disappointed but not completely dettered I looked at their normal hotel search and was offered a "top-secret hotel". This was presented as having such a big discount the hotel didn't want it's name associated with it. You get told the hotel name on your confirmation email. I hadn't got a problem with that and was completely used to it having done plenty of allocation on arrival deals for beach holidays with the likes of Thomson. Also I had done something similar to the lastminute top secret hotel with a website called priceline a few years back where you could name your own price and London area and hotels would bid for your custom ( or not ).

The thing is with the lastminute.com secret hotel, apart from the star rating, they actually gave two clues about the hotel. One was the location description, the other was the supposed % discount. I used the location description to match the hotel from the list of "proper" hotels and the % discount gave me confirmation of my educated guess. The location was one I wanted as I was arriving to Madrid by train and this hotel was right in the train station so I thought it would be easy.

So apart from the % discount, the fact that I thought I was being clever by working out the exact hotel and the fact that the hotel happened to suit me had me hooked so I went ahead and booked.

However when I looked at the hotel official website (to try and find more information on charge for breakfast etc) I saw I could have saved another 10% by booking direct. Well done Lastminute.com - your canny booking process and branding managed to get you another sale. even a travel industry veteran like me who normally prides himself on getting the best deal. Fair play to you.

easter city break deals

Expedia has some interesting deals on flight and hotel Easter City Breaks 2009:

It's good to look at these because by booking the flight and hotel together at Expedia you get the holiday ATOL bonded.

Here's an example of what Expedia are offering for Easter city breaks departing the ninth of April :

• Budapest- Flight and 4nts hotel from £177pp
• Amsterdam - Flight and 4nts hotel from £205pp
• Barcelona - Flight and 4nts hotel from £196pp
• Berlin - Flight and 4nts hotel from £195pp
• Istanbul - Flight and 4nts hotel from £278pp
• Vegas - Flight and 7nts hotel from £438pp

Check out all the Easter offers on the dedicated page here

2009 the year of the mega deal

Great deals available for hotel only.

Interesting times for hotel deal seekers. There are a number of mega deals available at the moment, partly because of the credit crunch, partly because of the marketing and PR value that hotels get when giving away hotel rooms for nothing or practically nothing . .

• HotelConnect are going to be unleashing a load of £1 a night rooms on Thursday 26th Feb at 10 :00 UK time. When they are gone, they are gone so get in quick. Experience with the mega deals at Lastminute.com and £1 rooms at The Hoxton in London leaves me with this advice :
  

1. Familiarise yourself with the HotelConnect website before the day so you know how to search.
2. Have your credit card ready.
3. Make sure you know which dates you can and can't go away, if flights are involved have an idea which dates cheap flights are available. Skyscanner might help you there.
4. Have a look at the terms and conditions of the offer ( I have copied them below )
   

• Lastminute.com is having regular sales with rooms as low as £10 a night. Stay tuned to HotelJungle and I will tip you off about the next one.
  

• An emerging trend in the travel industry is to let customers pay what they want for hotel stays. A new hotel in Singapore is doing just that for stays until mid - March.
  

HotelConnect £1 rooms Terms & Conditions :

1. The £1 rooms are available to book online only at www.hotelconnect.co.uk until sold out. 2. The offer is for room only in a twin/double room and does not include breakfast. 3. There is a maximum stay of three nights per booking. 4. One booking per person. If you do book more than one - there will be trouble and we will cancel the booking. The hotel and HotelConnect reserve the right to cancel any bookings which we suspect, with good reason, to be fraudulent. 5. A charge of £15 per person will apply to cancellations. 6. Any name amendments to your booking will be charged a £15 administration fee. 7. Bookings are not transferable. You may not change your booking to any other dates or hotel. 8. 5% online discount does not apply to the rooms in this promotion. 9. All offers are subject to availability and specific arrival dates and travel restrictions may apply. Prices subject to change. 10. These conditions are in addition to our standard booking terms and conditions which also apply and which you must read before booking.

Singapore hotel lets you pay what you want

Pay what you want for hotels !

A newly opened hotel in Singapore is letting customers pay whatever they want for stays. The Ibis hotel on Bencoolen is running a promotion for stays until the middle of March where some lucky guests can pay what they want for their stay. The hotel has a massive 538 rooms so it's easy to imagine they can afford to give away rooms in this way. The free marketing they will get in newspapers and blogs like this will more than pay for what they are "losing" on the room revenue.

It would be interesting to see how much people pay and whether people who stay for free are more inclined to pay for meals and mini-bar etc. I think I would.


Curious to see how much I could build my own package to Singapore for I had a quick look at Singapore Airlines just now, it will cost around £500 all told for a return flight to Singapore. Maybe I will wait until airlines start letting customers pay what they want for flights !


Hat tip : The pay what you want phenonenom first published on affiliate marketing for travel industry

Lastminute.com hotel sale Friday

6 February only

lastminute.com will be offering 50% off on selected top name UK, US and European hotels this coming Friday for one day only.

Here are some hints from the press release :

"Top deals up for grabs include four star London hotels from £56.00 such as the Radisson SAS Portman, three star hotels in Edinburgh including the Capital hotel from as little as £30.00 and five star Barcelona hotels such as the ME Barcelona from just £85.00."

The offer is available on selected top name hotels across the UK and Europe and valid on stays on selected dates.

Nothing on the site now but worth a look on Friday morning then : Lastminute.com

Valentines weekend hotel deals

12 romantic breaks for Valentines weekend 2009

Hotel Connect have a special with Valentines offers worth looking at.

The offers feature both UK breaks and European city breaks all under £100 pp for 2 nights.

As Valentines day falls on a Saturday this year hotels and restaurants are expecting a busy weekend. It's also worth noting that the six nations game between Wales and England is also 14th Feb this year.






Paris - 3 Star Sup - Villa Opera Lamartine - 2 nights from £98pp

Budapest - 4 Stars - Atrium - 2 nights from £66pp

Venice - 3 Stars - Alla Giustizia - 2 nights from £98pp

Vienna - 2 Star - family run hotel - 2 nights from £60pp

Barcelona - 4 Stars - H10 Marina - 2 nights from £94pp

Rome - 4 Stars - Villa Patrizi - 2 nights from £92pp

Cotswolds - 3 Stars - Heythrop Park - 2 nights - from £92pp

Harrogate - 4 Stars - Crown 2 nights from £98pp

Lake District - 4 Stars - Macdonald Swan - 2 nights from £98pp

Stratford upon Avon - Studley Castle - 2 nights from £100pp

Edinburgh - 4 star - Royal Terrace -2 nights from £94pp

London - 3 Star - Hyde Park - 2 nights from £94pp

Greece Deals this weekend

Summer Holiday 2009 in Greece ?

Greek salad, Gyros kebabs, Mythos beer, turquoise sea, island cruising, olives . . . I love Greece so I was pleased to see there are some good deals on travel to Greece this summer going on this weekend.

James Villas are having a weekend sale on Greece, book by Monday and you will get upto £100 off, free car hire, free welcome pack and free travel insurance !.

James Villas destinations in Greece are Corfu, Crete, Kefalonia, Lefkas, Meganissi, Parga, Paxos, Rhodes, Skopelos and Zante.

thomascook.com are also focusing on Greece this weekend. They have prices as low as £138pp and are offering 20% off holidays booked this weekend. Thomas Cook also have hotel only deals in Greece from £4 per person per night.



Both Greek Summer 2009 deals end Monday at midnight. Both James Villas and Thomas Cook are ABTA and ATOL bonded.

Park Resorts Discount Code

Discount Code for Park-Resorts.com

Park Resorts operate 37 holiday parks all around the seaside in England, Wales and Scotland.
They have early booking offers on right now in addition we have been tipped off about this promotional code giving you a further 10% discount at Park-Resorts.com

Get 10% off all static caravan holidays in 2009. Online bookings only. Min holiday cost £59

Discount Code WEBVOUC10

Valid until end of Feb 2009

Park Resorts Website

Jet2 holidays discount code

Jet2 holidays discount code

If you are in the market for a winter break from a Northern airport we just got sent a discount code from Jet2.

10% off all Winter holidays when you use the discount code 'winterpromo' when you book online at Jet2 Holidays.com

Terms and Conditions for the Jet2.com discount:

Book between January 7th 2009 and 22nd March 2009

Travel between January 7th 2009 and March 31st 2009 and returning within this period.

Where Holidays to all Jet2holidays.com destinations.

Anything else ? Discount is on basic package holiday price and does not include car hire, excursions or insurance.

Book now for the Travelodge summer sale

Travelodge has launched a major sale for summer 2009 with rooms from £9

Stay dates : 5th May - 6th September inclusive

Other info : Must be paid in advance and bookings are non-refundable

Discount Code for hotels.co.uk

Hotels.com also known as Hotels.co.uk are running their January sale already and have upto 40% off. On top of that hoteljungle.co.uk is also lucky enough to have a 10% discount code for an even bigger saving.

Here is the discount code : HB5eA3tXSave10p



Terms & Conditions for the hotels.co.uk discount code
*Discount Code Terms & Conditions:
1. This discount code (or coupon) may be used to book prepaid a Low Price Guarantee hotel (excluding bookings for any Harrah's, MGM, Starwood, Intercontinental or Marriott hotels), with Hotels.com.
2. The coupon entitles you to 10% discount off your total reservation cost (exclusive of any taxes, fees or VAT).
3. Valid for hotel bookings between 00:01 a.m. on 22nd Dec 2008 and 23:59 p.m. on 4th Jan 2009, for stay dates between 22nd Dec 2008 and 31st Dec 2009.
4. Coupon use is subject to further terms and conditions. See www.hotels.co.uk for details