The first channel to book a hotel is the room voucher.
The biggest advantage of house vouchers is high cost performance, which is determined by the particularity of house vouchers. Hotels sell room coupons, in most cases, as the basis for the next room. Since it is a 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 verifying the repayment after one month, which is basically that the amount is brainless.
However, the disadvantage of room vouchers is also obvious, that is, they may not be used, 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 get more room vouchers to live. When business is good, they are unwilling to accept the order of room coupons.
However, there are also solutions. At present, no matter Ctrip, Flying Pig or Meituan, they have all started online reservation systems. When they sell, they communicate with the merchants and must ensure a certain inventory.
The second is the calendar room.
The so-called calendar room means that the check-in date needs to be determined at the time of booking. Most hotel groups book on official website and OTA. Generally, it is not refundable, but there will be a refundable price (slightly higher).
Room voucher (the date is uncertain, and a second reservation is needed) and calendar room (the travel date is determined when booking) are a balancing logic.
When the supply exceeds the demand, the room voucher is easily sold out of the calendar room. After all, it is more cost-effective, and it is unlikely to have an appointment 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 a little more expensive at most.
The third is the niche channel.
For example, FHR, shrimp tour and meeting these luxury hotels are all additional channels for booking courtesy. This channel pays attention to courtesy (rights), but the price is not necessarily the lowest.
Flying Pig F3 and F4 members, China Merchants Bank 300 Select, China Construction Bank Dashanbai and other special rights channels. This channel focuses on price (discount), while rights and interests are often not.
Today, we will focus on these channels.
FHR is the originator of the introduction of luxury hotel extra reservation courtesy channel.
The so-called FHR, the full name is Fine Hotels &; Resort. It is a hotel plan launched by American Express to American Express Black Gold Card and Platinum Card holders.
Book FHR and enjoy the following benefits:
It can be seen that these rights and interests are mainly divided into two types.
First, the benefits enjoyed by senior members, such as room upgrade, free breakfast, early check-in and late check-out, SNP (accumulated points and accumulated room accommodation).
The other kind is special courtesy, that is, catering or SPA consumption 100 USD. Or you can get additional participation, such as 3 to 2 and 4 to 3.
Therefore, FHR will be more suitable for students who don't have high-end members of hotel groups, and hotels that don't have too strict membership plans (such as Four Seasons and Oman).
In these hotels, upgrades and breakfasts will become very useful. 100 yuan will also be more useful.
However, FHR also has shortcomings. The price of FHR is the lever price, which will be slightly more expensive than the normal OTA channel reservation.
But if you count the upgrade, breakfast and 100 dollars, it is absolutely cost-effective.
Another disadvantage of 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 less).
FHR has its own website.
/en-us/travel/fine-hotel-resorts/
You can find hotels supported by FHR on this website. At present, 74 hotels in China support FHR reservation.
FHR must be booked by telephone.
Swimming shrimp
Swimming shrimp should be regarded as the best replacement version of FHR, which basically has everything (although there will be 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 it's nothing, it's 599 a year plus a shuttle, which is actually not bad.
Of course, you are not advised to buy this 599. I pushed Hoshino this time a few days ago, so I won free membership for everyone (there is no shuttle bus). Although the window period has passed now, there will definitely be opportunities next.
In fact, it is easy to sign up for the shrimp tour, and everyone can. What is really needed is to unlock the hotel exclusive price and shrimp swimming points.
Especially the exclusive price of the hotel, you can book a room with exclusive price, book a room with 100 dollars, with upgrade, breakfast, catering or SPA consumption.
Of course, Ranger is a domestic company after all, which can be said to further upgrade the FHR experience. FHR has it, and it also has it; FHR didn't. Maybe there's shrimp.
For example, in terms of special courtesy, FHR is a unified consumption of 100 yuan, but shrimp swimming may be deeply customized, such as pick-up and ferry tickets (Hu Xiang Xiaoyao Manor), which may be part of special courtesy.
The advantage of this is that more people can participate in the hotel.
At the same time, there will also be packaged goods such as flying pigs and Ctrip.
For example, February 14 (the third day of the first month), Fuchun Mountain Residence in Hangzhou, 1688 includes two breakfasts, and the catering consumption in 300 yuan.
This package is currently available on the shrimp tour, so you can focus on what is not arranged during the Spring Festival.
One night in Ctrip on the same day is 3242, which is only early. The difference is big.
So these channels are really not suitable for every hotel. The more upscale the hotel, the less members are treated and the more holidays there are, and the more cost-effective it is to use these channels.
Alipay's support
Zhiyu is a joint venture between Alipay and Ranger, which is used to provide benefits to the diamond and platinum members of Alipay.
Platinum members can book up to 6 times per natural year; Diamond membership, unlimited times in each natural year.
But at present, the number of hotels supported is slightly less than that of shrimp tours. However, there are also exclusive hotels, such as IHG and Hyatt, which are completely covered.
Moreover, there are three accommodations and two payments for intercontinental accommodation, so it is particularly cost-effective to deposit the ball in Hangzhou. 660 a night, including breakfast, room upgrade, free cancellation in advance 1 day.
Let's talk about special rights channels such as F3 and F4 members of Flying Pig, 300 Select of China Merchants Bank and Dashanbai of China Construction Bank.
These channels have no right (upgrade, 100 USD, etc. Compared with the FHR and shrimp tour above, the advantage is that the cost performance will be particularly high.
Flying Pig F4 is eight times a year, China Merchants Bank 300 is selected six times a year, and China Construction Bank Dashan Bai is twice a year. In fact, it is enough for most people to travel for one year.
Flying pig F4
F4 members of Flying Pig said at the beginning that their hotel privileges of 8 times a year will get better and better, and more and more hotels will be supported.
Today, I looked at the supported hotels. It really is. More, the price is more powerful.
Take a look at any one. This is still a picture taken on Saturday today, and the member day will be more cost-effective every Thursday.
Top 300 China Merchants Bank selected
China Merchants Bank 300 Select is the rights and interests of China Merchants Bank's classic white (and above) credit cards. However, I still recommend you to enter the classic white, because the classic white can offset the annual fee with points, but diamonds, centurions and China Merchants Unlimited Cards need annual fees.
300 Select has also updated many hotels, many of which are cost-effective.
Search for "300 selected hotels" in the Pocket Life App or enter the designated rights reservation page through the "high-end exclusive" section to see the prices of all hotels supporting 300 selected hotels.
China Construction Bank Dashanbai
The full name of CCB Dashanbai is Longka's platinum credit card. Because the card face is white and there is a mountain in the background, it is called Dashan White.
The advantage of this card is that it has the preferential right to stay in high-end hotels twice a year.
High-end star hotel 200 yuan+1000 points, luxury star hotel 800 yuan+1000 points. 200 yuan file corresponds to hotels with market price around 300-500 yuan, and 800 yuan file corresponds to hotels with market price above 1000 yuan.
I don't know which hotels I can change, but according to the reader's message, 800 files can be changed to Fuchun Mountain Residence.
In addition, although the annual fee is 1800, 400,000 points are free of annual fee. Credit cards that do not require an annual fee are recommended.
In addition, Pufa Super White, at 1, also has the right to 4 nights of free high-star hotels (or 2 nights of luxury hotels), but super white 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 today.
Flying Pig F4, China Merchants Bank 300 Select and China Construction Bank Dashanbai are all price-oriented. However, you should also make more comparisons when booking. In fact, many hotels are full of people.
Summary 1) room coupons are suitable for hoarding goods in advance and are often the most cost-effective. But we must remember that hoarding a big platform is irreversible. At the beginning of last year, many people bought an irrevocable Maldives. Even if you are given an extension, it is impossible to go out in the short term.
2) The senior management of the hotel group suggested the official channels of the hotel group. Especially for Hyatt, its official channels are room coupons and calendars, which is very good.
3) If you don't have a senior member and want to enjoy the discount 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 a senior member, including early and right.
4) For those who are particularly concerned about the price, Feizhu F4, China Merchants Bank 300 and China Construction Bank Dashan Bai are all good, but we should also pay attention to the distinction. In many cases, it may be more cost-effective to use the room coupon package.