Hotel Sales Deals Note Discussion

rosemary54

doverrog wrote: »

I've tried to access this offer but can't find any 'voucher' to fill in with the member of staff name.
Can anyone help please?

you can't access it any more:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

doverrog

Thanks Rosemary. I only got my Martins email this morning and so I lost out!!!!

yorksrabbit

rosemary54 wrote: »

realy !!!!ed off by this "offer" as I was all set to book(still had the page up so could do this BUT the links were closed well before the stated time of midnight and as I had not printed the coupon I did not want to take the risk of having to pay double when i went to the hotel,they should have done as promised and kept open till midnight.now you say I could have booked:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: but what would have happened about the coupon,very unhappy about this

It wasn't an "offer". It was / is a genuine promotion.

It was published on MSE in a post more than six weeks ago:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1535105

IHG initially seemed to think it was fine for MSE members to make use of the FF link but have now changed their minds -- presumably, demand from this particular 'audience sector' is greater than had been anticipated.

Fair do's though: six weeks was a lo-oo-nng time for the F&F link to be open, and honoured, by IHG.

As to the "midnight promise": nothing on the IHG website link ever mentioned a close-out day or date, so no corporate promise was ever made (the Press Office statement about 'midnight' was only issued yesterday, and, it seems, in some haste.)

And as to withdrawing the offer, IHG always had the right to withdraw, restrict or modify it (or any other promotion) at any time.

Note to anyone thinking of turning up at a hotel with a booking form but no F&F voucher:

DON'T RISK IT

The Terms & Conditions of your booking specifically stated that you MUST download the voucher and you MUST print it out and present it at reception when arriving at the hotel.

Anyone who has already made a booking, but DOESN'T have the required voucher, please p.m. me: I'll happily email it to you.

yorksrabbit

freebie65 wrote: »

Thanks for the F&F link - I booked a hotel in the States for Oct and saved £100 against reservation I had on hold!Had to pre pay but with savings like that , not a problem
Looks like link has been taken down now- shame as I bet there will be empty hotel rooms across the globe-companies need to wake up to realise it is better to get 50% of price than nothing at all!

It's why I for one am hoping that IHG will think about offering a special MSE promotion: the spend-per-head level it has inadvertently attained here (inadvertently, because it was an IHG employee who was bright enough to mention it on MSE: no corporate approach was made to the forum) considerably exceeds the SPH achieved by groups like Travelodge as a result of their discount promotions.

You're absolutely right about the state of the industry: business-class hotels -- and IHG is firmly in that class -- are being hit, and will continue to be hit, by a downturn in traditional patronage as long as the UK recession bites.

As one with some knowledge of the industry, I can tell you it isn't filling bedrooms that bring the profits but filling the restaurant and the bar tills (and the room service revenue stream.)

So yes, you can discount -- heavily -- on the often ludicrous "rack rates" simply because if you ain't got the punters in the door, you haven't got the punters in anywhere else, either, so your prospects of weathering the current business downturn ain't too shiny.

C'mon, IHG. Give it another whirl!

eslick

check out these rates they were half the price than the f&f a few weeks ago, we got a room for 42 instead of 89

http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/...light&a=b.html

yorksrabbit

eslick wrote: »

check out these rates they were half the price than the f&f a few weeks ago, we got a room for 42 instead of 89

http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/...light&a=b.html

Good tip -- link seems to have gone down though?? Perhaps IHG is revising various offers at the mo.

yorksrabbit

UPDATE:

MSEr Triker reports that the IHG Friends & Family link is STILL VALID.

And yes. It is.

Anyone here still interested in this excellent deal, please see my post at #130 on the original Holiday Inn thread where I've put together the relevant booking details:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=20748575&posted=1#post20748575

Hope this helps.

* NB: without a crystal ball, I've no idea how long the link will remain live -- IHG has the right to close it at any time.

Obukit

Hi,

Sorry for anyone annoyed about this - it wasn't a "scam", IHG just decided to withdraw the link - I think they didn't quite realise what 3.5m MSErs could do .

If anyone has made a booking and needs a voucher, the link to it is: -

http://images3.ichotelsgroup.com/cq/etc/media_library/pdf/ihg/amer.Par.0002.File.tmp/Voucher.pdf

Just fill in it with my name (Kit Waites) and my hotel (Express Oxford). If anyone hasn't made a booking, as others have said there are loads of links to other people's online. I can't link to them for obvious reasons, but a quick search on Google should give you loads of possibilities!

Hope that helps.

Kit

brryssn

yorksrabbit wrote: »

UPDATE:

MSEr Triker reports that the IHG Friends & Family link is STILL VALID.

And yes. It is.

Anyone here still interested in this excellent deal, please see my post at #130 on the original Holiday Inn thread where I've put together the relevant booking details:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=20748575&posted=1#post20748575

Hope this helps.

* NB: without a crystal ball, I've no idea how long the link will remain live -- IHG has the right to close it at any time.

Many thanks!! I've just booked for two nights in Paris - booked the Berlin one the other day just before it was withdrawn so thought I'd missed out on getting this one, but after seeing your post thought I'd get in quick & managed to book it OK. So thanks again!:T

brryssn

Obukit wrote: »

Hi,

Sorry for anyone annoyed about this - it wasn't a "scam", IHG just decided to withdraw the link - I think they didn't quite realise what 3.5m MSErs could do .

If anyone has made a booking and needs a voucher, the link to it is: -

http://images3.ichotelsgroup.com/cq/etc/media_library/pdf/ihg/amer.Par.0002.File.tmp/Voucher.pdf

Just fill in it with my name (Kit Waites) and my hotel (Express Oxford). If anyone hasn't made a booking, as others have said there are loads of links to other people's online. I can't link to them for obvious reasons, but a quick search on Google should give you loads of possibilities!

Hope that helps.

Kit

Many, many thanks to you too Kit!!!:beer: