Do you travel just occasionally a couple of times a year and do not reach any status in the loyalty program of your preferred hotels? Do you think that with it, you have no chance of any perks at hotels (unless you book and pay for expensive rooms or suites)? As Singabiz customers or our blog readers you have the best chances for your new experience from now on. With our new partner, you can be treated in participating hotels like a guest with a high-status level in hotel’s loyalty program or even better than that. Perfect hotel stays are guaranteed.
Programs “by Invitation Only”
You surely heard about Marriott Bonvoy, Hilton Honors, IHG One, ALL – Accor Life Limitless and other programs available publicly to any guest. You can easily register for any of those programs and start earning your points. The qualification for higher levels in the programs is also still possible. This provides you with additional perks, the higher your membership level.
Depending on your status level, the benefits can include:
- Free-of-charge breakfast for you and a second person staying in the same room.
- Room upgrades up to suites.
- Access to executive lounges.
- Early check-in and late check-out and many more.
At the same time, not everyone had already heard about Marriott Stars and Luminous, Hilton for Luxury, IHG Destined, Accor Preferred or Hyatt Privé, just to mention few of these “secret” programs. As a guest, you cannot just subscribe to them, because these programs are indeed by invitation only. And the invitation is dedicated not to guests themselves, but to carefully selected handful of agencies.
What is In for Me?
That’s an easy question. You just need to find an agency registered for the mentioned programs. It offers you the special rates and attractive benefits at the same time:
- Up to 100 USD hotel credit (depending on the hotel) for your stay. This you can use then for a dinner, a spa treatment or anything else
- Late check-out
- Room upgrades
- Free breakfast
- Flexible rates, payable directly at the hotel and modifiable until the day of arrival
Even if you do not hold a Platinum, Diamond or any other elite levels in the appropriate programs, you can be treated as if you had them. In some cases you have an even better treatment. (Should you be at the highest level of a loyalty program, in 99% of cases you would not get credits when booking a hotel).
Interestingly, the rates you can book as similar to those publicly available on all other booking channels. Sometimes, the rates you can get via our partner are even cheaper than the publicly available ones. From time to time there are special promotions increasing your savings even further, like 3 for 4 or 2 for 3 offers.
Don’t Do Other Agencies Offer Similar Perks? What’s the Difference?
Well, agencies which are not invited to participate in these exclusive programs have no access to the special offers. Such rates are available only to the above-mentioned selected agencies.
Furthermore, if you participate in hotel loyalty programs and value the benefits you can get from them, booking through usual agencies can be a significant setback. The reservations via booking platforms are mostely not recognized for earning program points or qualifying stays/ nights.
Booking via our partner, however, not only brings you the above-mentioned additional perks. You are also recognized as program member with your status level. This means that you can also benefit from perks offered by the hotel program for your status level on top of what you can get thanks to reservations via our partner.
Benefiting from the best of both worlds (your loyalty program and the perks from “invitation only” reservations) you can significantly improve your stay making it to a perfect hotel stay.
Which Hotels Can I Book Via Your Partner?
Our partner has access to more than 3000 hotels worldwide, mainly in a luxury or upper segments.
As an example, you can find hotels like
- Marriott Stars: The Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, EDITION, The Luxury Collection, Bvlgari Hotels & Resorts, and Ritz-Carlton Reserve
- Marriott Luminous: W Hotels, JW Marriott, Autograph Collection, Westin, Marriott Hotels, Le Méridien, Renaissance Hotels, and Tribute Portfolio
- Hilton for Luxury: Conrad, Waldorf-Astoria, and LXR
- IHG Destined: Six Senses, Regent Hotels & Resorts, InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Vignette Collection, Kimpton Hotels, Hotel Indigo
- Accor Preferred: available at Accor’s luxury brands, including Raffles, Fairmont, Sofitel, Banyan Tree, Sofitel Legend, Delano, and SLS
- Hyatt Privé: Park Hyatt, Andaz, Grand Hyatt, and Thompson Hotels
- The Leading Hotels of the World
- Small Luxury Hotels
- Rocco Forte Hotels
- Mandarin Oriental
- Shangri-La
- Jumeirah
- Four Seasons Hotels
- Rosewood Hotels
- Kempinski Hotels
and many others.
What Would Be The Right Approach To Get The Perfect Hotel Stay?
First of all: you surely noticed that the hotels offered are rather at an upper and luxury scale. It’s up to you to decide which level of hotels you prefer. You still can book directly with the hotels and benefit from your program status perks, even if the selected hotel would be at a lower scale. Booking directly with the hotels will ensure that your stay will count for your (re-)qualification within the hotel loyalty program.
If you would like to pamper yourself with a stronger touch of luxury, you can compare the rates offered by our partner with the rates (and also promotional rates) you can find on the website of the selected hotel. In 99% of cases the benefits you can get by booking via our partner make the booking via our partner more attractive (at nearly the same rates) compared to the direct booking. With it, your perfect hotel stay is closer than you believe. I’m not even talking about booking via standard booking platforms. They do not offer you the recognition at the hotel as a hotel program member.
But it still can happen that you find on the hotel page promotional rates which could be cheaper than with us. Comparing both of them, you can select whatever attracts you more.
How Can I Book Via Your Partner?
Well, as we mentioned above, the rates offered through “invitation only” programs are not publicly available. In order to be able to access them, you first need to register on the platform of our partner. The registration with the partner gives you the opportunity to access all available rates, the special ones and the publicly available ones.
And in case you would like to get a consultation about how to optimize your travel experience in the best and most efficient way, do not hesitate to contact us and a Singabiz® representative will be glad to assist you further.
