Help Please Anyone do the Marriott Price Guarantee claim??

[LaDonna]

I found this on Hotels.com
SpringHill Suites $71 a night
http://www.hotels.com/hotel/details...Date=12-23-11&departureDate=12-25-11&children[0]=3&rooms[0].childrenAges[0]=13&rooms[0].childrenAges[1]=12&rooms[0].childrenAges[2]=4&rooms[0].numberOfAdults=2&roomno=1&validate=false&previousDateful=false&reviewOrder=date_newest_first



and Marriott's site it is $79
https://www.marriott.com


It says in order to do the price guarantee you have to book thru Marriott's site first then file a claim.................I don't want to be stuck w/ Marriott's price that is more so I'm wondering if anyone else has done this????
If it works I should get %25 off the $71 which would be totally awesome for 5 of us an indoor heated pool and breakfast!

 

[LaDonna]

or I wonder if I should just call the hotel directly and ask for this rate?

 

[kaytieeldr]

Not with Marriott, but I've done it before. Since you don't want to be stuck paying $8 extra per night, make sure the conditions for both reservations are the same - especially that neither is a prepay in full/nonrefundable deal.

 

[maggiew]

Unless its a non-cancellable rate, you would be able to cancel the Marriott reservation.

I am embarassed to say how many times I have made and cancelled reservations on the marriott site for our Hawaii trip next summer.

Maggie

 

[bumbershoot]

I followed your hotels.com (a fine, reputable website that we book with ALL the time for hubby's travel, and I personally wouldn't mess with guarantees and would just book with them) link and saw your dates, put the dates into the marriott site, and saw that the Marriott rate is a prepaid, not refundable after one day, rate.

Therefore, I wouldn't risk it, personally. What if the hotels rate goes up in the next 24 hours, and they can't verify it? Then you've missed out on the hotels rate AND on the guarantee.

But...I'm not a gambler, and I tend to take the best price I see and have done with it. And I like hotels.com. If you do any "reward" sites, see if you can click through that site to hotels.com and get a small percentage back that way, too.

 

[maggiew]

If the Marriott price is prepaid and the hotels.com one is not, I don't think that Marriott will do the Look No Further Guarantee.

Maggie

 

[LaDonna]

I followed your hotels.com (a fine, reputable website that we book with ALL the time for hubby's travel, and I personally wouldn't mess with guarantees and would just book with them) link and saw your dates, put the dates into the marriott site, and saw that the Marriott rate is a prepaid, not refundable after one day, rate.

Therefore, I wouldn't risk it, personally. What if the hotels rate goes up in the next 24 hours, and they can't verify it? Then you've missed out on the hotels rate AND on the guarantee.

But...I'm not a gambler, and I tend to take the best price I see and have done with it. And I like hotels.com. If you do any "reward" sites, see if you can click through that site to hotels.com and get a small percentage back that way, too.

are there any additional fees or restrictions with hotels.com I may not be seeing? will it just be the $71 plus hotelfees/taxes?

 

[LaDonna]

If the Marriott price is prepaid and the hotels.com one is not, I don't think that Marriott will do the Look No Further Guarantee.

Maggie

yeah I'm not sure I wanna fool with it.....not for saving $30, not worth the risk I guess....prob just go with hotels.com, that seems like a really good price I guess, like I said I don't do hotels awhole lot

 

[crashbb]

If the Hotels.com one is NOT pre-paid and is refundable, just choose a matching rate at Marriott.com (it doesn't have to be the cheapest one offered on Marriott.com).

Then you can do the price match thing (assuming that the Hotel.com rate really is an unrestrcited rate) and cancel the Marriott one.

Or, just call Marriott and ask them about the price match before booking anything.

 

[ksloane]

I haven't done this with Marriot, but I have with Hilton and it worked and turned out to be a GREAT deal!

I did have to book and conditions had to be the same. They could verify (even if prices changed) by looking up my reservation.

I would do it again in a heartbeat.

 

[Leajess99]

I found this on Hotels.com
SpringHill Suites $71 a night
http://www.hotels.com/hotel/details...Date=12-23-11&departureDate=12-25-11&children[0]=3&rooms[0].childrenAges[0]=13&rooms[0].childrenAges[1]=12&rooms[0].childrenAges[2]=4&rooms[0].numberOfAdults=2&roomno=1&validate=false&previousDateful=false&reviewOrder=date_newest_first



and Marriott's site it is $79
https://www.marriott.com


It says in order to do the price guarantee you have to book thru Marriott's site first then file a claim.................I don't want to be stuck w/ Marriott's price that is more so I'm wondering if anyone else has done this????
If it works I should get %25 off the $71 which would be totally awesome for 5 of us an indoor heated pool and breakfast!

I have done it with a residence Inn and it was great. Marriott's site had the price for almost $200 while another site had it for $99 for the same room (2 bedroom suite with 3 queen beds). I booked with Marriott and then filed the claim. My room rate ended up being $74 a night with the 25% off. They were great about it.

I have previously tried the guarantee with Holiday Inn as well and dealing with their's was awful.

ETA: When I did the Price guarantee, I made the same reservation as what I was matching. I also saved a screen shot of the matching price incase it changed after I made the reservation. It didn't change and marriott did not have the price taken down either.

 

[Leajess99]

I would not make a reservation with the prepaid amount and would make a cancelable reservation. The worse thing they can say is no on the price match and you can cancel the marriott reservation.

 

[LaDonna]

But...I'm not a gambler, and I tend to take the best price I see and have done with it. And I like hotels.com. If you do any "reward" sites, see if you can click through that site to hotels.com and get a small percentage back that way, too.

I do do mypoints, and they are showing 8 pts per dollar for Expedia(which I just looked and they have the same deal) and 3pts per dollar for Hotels.com

does anyone know anything about Expedia?