RBS Royalties Hotel Booking

Rage_in_Eden

As I have one of these account I was wondering about the hotel booking scheme. Has anyone used it? Was it any good? Did you get a better discount than booking direct? I know it's not strictly old-style but you all talk such sense...... I normally trawl the cheapo sites (octopus,expedia etc) but was wondering about this .... Ta!

Galtizz

I think this would get lots more responses if it was on either the holidays or the Credit card board. I'll move it on to the Hols board first because I guess loads of people on there will have this type of card

albalad

I don't have the royalties gold myself , but parents and friends have.
If you book your holiday through them -they guarantee to beat any advertised (Brochure) price by 10%

You also get free travel insurance , access to the airport executive lounges
In the uk it only seems to be the big chain hotels they use for short breaks , as parents tried unsuccessfully recently to get a weekend away , it ended up cheaper by booking directly with the hotel.

I personally never ever pay the brochure price for a holiday ,so i think it is a bit of a false economy - to pay the bank to give you a discount on something that you could get cheaper yourself anyway !

You also get commision free foreign exchange - but you still get a better rate from travelex.

MiM

I'm getting a Nationwide account today because I'm always paying out too much in fees.

But when is it better to use Travelex?

Finishrich

MiM wrote:

But when is it better to use Travelex?

When you want cash. Exchanging pounds in Euros or Dollars etc.