You know the saying – there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Well in this case, that still holds true….this time it’s a free breakfast (in conjunction with a free hotel stay)
With the Choice Hotels Best Rate Guarantee, if you find a price lower than they offer directly on the Choice Hotels website, they’ll give you the first night of your reservation completely free, and match the lower rate for the rest of the nights. If you’re only staying 1 night, then that night becomes completely free.
I was looking for a simple 1 night stay near the Charlotte airport before the Mrs. Guru and I head down to the Bahamas (for only 9,000 points roundtrip per person!!!!), and I knew that Choice Hotels had plenty of options around the Charlotte Airport. The Comfort Suites Airport is only a mile from the airport and offers a free shuttle to/from the airport:
Sure, it’s not a luxury villa like we stayed at in Bali, but for a quick overnight at the airport, it’d be all we need – especially for free! I found that the rate directly at Choice Hotels would be about $131 including tax, so as long as I could find a lower rate somewhere else, our stay would be completely free:
One of the best tools for searching multiple hotel sites simultaneously is Hotels Combined. I did a quick search on there, and saw that the Comfort Suites was available from Hotelopia for only $116:
Just to make sure, I clicked through to the Hotelopia site and sure enough, the total (including tax) was $115.93:
With that, I went ahead and booked a room at the Choice Hotels website (no cancellation penalty until 6 pm on the day of check in, so if the Best Rate Guarantee claim was denied for some reason, I could easily cancel and wasn’t locked in to anything). As soon as I had reserved the room at ChoiceHotels.com, I went to the Best Rate Guarantee Form, and filled it out:
After I submitted the form, I received a response back in about 30 minutes:
A few minutes later, I received an updated confirmation email, with the rate of $0.00 for our stay:
So just like that, we have a free night, including free breakfast – although we’ll have to pay for meals later in the day, so still no free lunch
This specific hotel appears to be available for other nights too, so if you’re needing a hotel in the Charlotte area, this could be your ticket! Choice does have hotels all across the country and worldwide, so make sure to double-check the rates to see if you can score a free night wherever else you need to go!
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