How to choose the right hotel room?

Travel a lot? Read through some tips which can make you more aware before you are handed over the keys by the hotel staff. If applied correctly, each of these tips can add that magic touch in your hotel stay and provide you with that extra worth of your spent money.

1. Specify any additional requirement while booking for your hotel room online. Often specific information such as free Internet, Jacuzzi etc has to be clearly described in order to shorten your hotel list which supports these additional features at no extra cost.
2. At all times keep in mind to mention to the hotel staff for any of your special days such as birthdays and anniversary if any while making a booking. Such information allows the hotel staff to extend a little something extra to you at no extra costs.
3. First comes, First pays. Often immovable properties such as hotels have flexible rates for the rooms. Prices of the rooms change during “On season” and are different during “Off season”. It is always better to choose a hotel which has a number of vacant rooms as it is more likely to give you a good price on negotiation than the one which has a scarcity of available rooms.
4. In hotels all across the world, the rooms facing a main road will cost more than the ones facing an apartment building because of the view. You can always cash in on these features in order to reap some big benefits.
5. Always stay away from rooms which are in proximity to kitchens or restaurants. Often places where there are common gatherings such as hotel lobby, restaurants or kitchens are the source of excessive noise which can be the cause of unwanted nuisance on your long desired holiday trip.
6. Prominent hotel chains across the world offer hotel memberships as well as bonus cards to its guests. If you hold one of them, you can look out for hotels that already have an association with your parent hotel to get those special conveniences as well as discounted prices at your chosen location. Some hotels may even give you a deluxe room for the charge of the standard room against this privilege.
7. Last but not the least, if you do not find the room you have been assigned, up to standards, you should immediately request for a new room. If the hotel has other vacant rooms, they should not have any problem relocating you at any time.

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Marriott on the move

In the hotel business what a client looks forward to is probably a safe and a comfortable place where he can have a good night’s sleep and perhaps some memorable experiences to take back home. It certainly is a delight if you get something much more than expected. In the recent situation in Bangkok where political unrest overwhelmed Bangkok’s streets for almost a month, life almost came to a standstill. However papers report that over 5 different properties of Marriott International were closed down and guests had to be shifted to safer spaces across other hotels. What truly remained was the responsibility on the employees of hotels across the place to protect their properties from potential damage by the protestors.

In his blog, Bill Marriott Chairman and CEO of Marriott International writes “Heroism and dedication to duty takes many forms and none of us know when and how we’ll be called to face the challenge. Heroism is not always recognized, but I’m very proud and want to salute the men and women of these hotels, led by their respective General Managers. Everyone did what they had to do to protect their hotels. I am very proud of all of them.” This is an occurrence of enormous dedication for duty by all the people in Bangkok allied to Marriott in some or the other way. Cheap hotels is proud to be associated with professionals of this caliber and a hotel group which has such high values. Great to go Marriott International!