What are the hotel reservation channels? How to make a cheap reservation in 221 hotels?

If you are booking a hotel, do you know any channels for booking a room? These channels can help you leave a lot of accommodation expenses, which is the most economical way, so if you want to plan a trip and book a hotel now, you can refer to these channels to book a room. The channel for booking a hotel

The first one is the room voucher

The biggest advantage of the room voucher is its high cost performance, which is determined by the specificity of the room voucher. Hotels sell room coupons, in most cases, to make a base for the next room volume. Since it is the base, the natural cost performance will be higher.

The second advantage of the house voucher is that it is non-refundable. Especially, with the function of repayment within one month after the verification of the flower bud, it is basically impossible to hoard it within the quota.

However, the disadvantage of room coupons is also obvious, that is, they may not be available, especially on some good days that everyone wants to go. There are many unreliable businesses. When there is a lack of business, I hope everyone can take more room vouchers to live. When business is good, they are reluctant to accept orders for room vouchers.

But there are solutions. At present, Ctrip, Flying Pig and Meituan have all started online reservation systems, and they have communicated with merchants when selling, so they must ensure a certain amount of inventory.

the second type is the calendar room.

the so-called calendar room means that the check-in date needs to be determined when booking. Most hotel groups make reservations on official website and OTA. Generally non-refundable, but there will be a refundable price (slightly higher).

the room voucher (the date is uncertain, and a second reservation is required) and the calendar room (the travel date is determined at the time of reservation) are a logic of changing.

When the supply exceeds the demand, the room voucher is better than the calendar room. After all, it is more cost-effective, and it is unlikely that the appointment will be missed except for holidays.

When the supply is relatively balanced, the calendar room is more dominant. Isn't the biggest problem with room coupons always that you can't make an appointment on your favorite date? But the calendar room won't. The calendar room is more expensive at most.

the third type is the minority channel.

For example, FHR, Shrimp Tour, and Accommodation, these luxury hotels provide additional booking courtesy channels. This channel pays attention to courtesy (rights and interests), but the price is not necessarily the lowest.

special rights channels such as F3 and F4 members of Flying Pig, China Merchants Bank 3 Select and China Construction Bank Dashanbai. This channel focuses on price (discount), but the rights and interests are often not.

today, we will focus on these channels. Channel introduction

FHR is the originator of the extra reservation courtesy channel for luxury hotels.

the full name of FHR is fine hotels &; Resorts。 It is a hotel plan launched by American Express to American Express Black Gold Card and Platinum Card holders.

FHR can enjoy the following rights and interests when booking:

It can be seen that these rights and interests are mainly divided into two types.

first, the benefits enjoyed by advanced membership, such as room upgrade, free breakfast, early check-in and late check-out, and SNP (accumulated points and accumulated room nights).

another kind is special courtesy, that is, $1 for catering or SPA consumption. Or you can get extra participation such as 3 for 2 and 4 for 3.

so FHR will be more suitable for students who don't have high-end membership in hotel groups, and hotels that don't have too strict membership plans (such as Four Seasons and Aman).

in these hotels, upgrading and breakfast will become very useful. 1 dollars would be more useful.

however, FHR also has disadvantages. the price of FHR is BAR price, which will be slightly more expensive than the normal OTA channel booking.

but if you count the upgrade, breakfast and $1, it's definitely a good deal.

Another disadvantage of p>FHR is that the threshold is too high. It seems that both American Express Black Gold Card and Platinum Card in China require annual fees, and they are not cheap (a few thousand dollars less).

FHR has its own website.

/en-us/Travel/Fine-Hotels-Resorts/

You can find the hotels supported by FHR on this website. At present, there are 74 hotels supported by FHR in China.

FHR must make a reservation by phone.

Swimming shrimp

Swimming shrimp should be regarded as the best replacement version of FHR. FHR basically has everything (but there are some minor differences in hotel support), but the threshold is much lower than FHR. If you have a senior member of the hotel group, or a credit card with platinum or above (this is very simple), you can apply for it for free.

if there's nothing, it's only 599 a year, and there's an extra pick-up or drop-off, which is actually not bad.

of course, we don't recommend buying this 599. A few days ago, I pushed Hoshino this time, so I won free members for everyone (there is no shuttle). Although the window period has passed now, there will definitely be opportunities next.

Actually, it's easy to register for shrimp swimming, and everyone can. What is really needed is to unlock the two rights of hotel exclusive price and shrimp swimming points.

Especially for the hotel exclusive rate, when booking a room with exclusive rate, you can book a room with an upgrade, breakfast, a meal of $1 or a SPA.

Of course, you Xia is a company in China after all, which can be said to have further upgraded the FHR experience. FHR has it, and it also has it; FHR doesn't have it. Maybe there are shrimps.

for example, in terms of special courtesy, FHR is a uniform consumption of $1, but shrimp swimming may be deeply customized, such as pick-up and drop-off, boat tickets (Xianghu Xiaoyao Manor), which may be part of special courtesy.

This has the advantage of increasing the number of participating hotels.

At the same time, there will be packaged goods like Flying Pig and Ctrip.

For example, on February 14th (the third day of the first month), Fuchun Mountain Residence in Hangzhou, one night in 1688 included double breakfast, as well as food and beverage consumption in 3 yuan.

this set meal is currently available on shrimp tours, and you can give priority consideration to those that have not been arranged during the spring festival.

on the same date, it costs 3242 a night on Ctrip, which is only including breakfast. The difference is big.

Therefore, these channels are not suitable for every hotel. The more high-end hotels, the less members are treated, and the more holidays, the more cost-effective it is to use these channels.

AliPay's support

Support is a joint venture project between Alipay and Youxia, which is used to provide rights and interests to Alipay's diamond and platinum members.

Platinum members can book up to 6 times per natural year; Diamond membership, unlimited times per natural year.

But at present, the number of hotels supported by the hotel is slightly less than that of the shrimp tour. However, there are also exclusive hotels, such as IHG and Hyatt, which are fully covered.

moreover, in the case of intercontinental accommodation, it is particularly cost-effective to book a golden ball in Hangzhou. 66 a night, including breakfast, room upgrade, and free cancellation one day in advance.

Let's also talk about the special rights channels such as F3 and F4 members of Flying Pig, China Merchants Bank 3 Select and China Construction Bank Dashanbai.

compared with the above FHR and shrimp tour, these channels have no rights (upgrade, 1 dollars, etc.), but the advantage is that the cost performance will be particularly high.

In fact, the hotel rights of Flying Pig F4, China Merchants Bank 3 Select Hotel 6 times a year, and China Construction Bank Dashanbai Hotel 2 times a year are enough for most people to travel for a year.

Flying Pig F4

At the beginning, the membership of Flying Pig F4 said that its hotel privilege of 8 times a year will get better and better, and more and more hotels will be supported.

I took a look at the supported hotels today, and it really is. More, the price is more powerful.

just pick a few and have a look. This is still a picture taken on Saturday today, and the cost performance will be higher every Thursday on Member's Day.

China Merchants Bank 3 Select

China Merchants Bank 3 Select is the rights and interests of China Merchants Bank's classic white (and above) credit cards. However, I still recommend you to enter Classic White, because Classic White can use points to offset the annual fee, but diamonds, centurions and unlimited cards that attract investment need annual fees.

3 Select has also updated many hotels, many of which are cost-effective.

Search for "3 Featured Hotels" in the Pocket Life App or enter the designated rights reservation page through the "High-end Exclusive" section, and you can see the prices of all hotels supporting 3 Featured Hotels.

CCB Dashanbai

The full name of CCB Dashanbai is Longka Enjoy Platinum Credit Card. Because the card face is white and there is a mountain in the background, it is called Dashanbai.

the advantage of this card is that it has two preferential occupancy rights in high-end hotels every year.

2 yuan +1 points is enough for high-end star hotels, and 8 yuan +1 points is needed for luxury star hotels. 2 yuan file corresponds to about 3-5 hotels in the market, and 8 yuan file corresponds to hotels above 1 yuan in the market.

There is no CCB Dashan Bai, so it is not clear which hotels can be changed at present, but according to the reader's message, 8 files can be changed to Fuchun Mountain Residence.

in addition, although the annual fee is 1,8, the annual fee is free for 4, points. Credit cards that don't require annual fees are all worth recommending.

In addition, there is Pudong Super White, which also enjoys the rights of free high-star hotels (or luxury hotels for two nights) for four nights a year, but it is even more difficult, at least much more difficult than the classic white of CCB Dashan White and China Merchants Bank, so I won't introduce it too much today.

Flying Pig F4, China Merchants Bank 3 Select and China Construction Bank Dashanbai are price-oriented. However, when booking, we should also make more comparisons. In fact, there are many hotels that are full of people. Summary

1) room coupons are suitable for stocking goods in advance and are often the most cost-effective. But we must remember that hoarding a big platform and hoarding it are irreversible. At the beginning of last year, many people bought an irrevocable Maldives, and even if they give you an extension, it is impossible to go out in the short term.

2) Senior members of the hotel group suggest the official channels of the hotel group. Especially for Hyatt, its own official channel is room coupons and calendars, which is particularly great.

3) If you don't have senior members and want to enjoy the benefits of each stay, it is recommended to focus on these channels, such as FHR, shrimp tour and support. It's great that you can upgrade without senior members, including early and have rights.

4) For those who are particularly concerned about the price, Flying Pig F4, China Merchants Bank 3 Select and China Construction Bank Dashanbai are good, but we should also pay attention to the distinction. In many cases, the room coupon package may be more cost-effective.