Ways to Save on Hotel Cost for Holiday

When planing for a holiday, cost factor will be one of the important consideration for most people in general. Other than finding cheap air ticket, saving on hotel cost is important as well. Finding a good deal for hotel is important as it can helps to save a good amount of money.

Below are some of the ways to save on hotel cost for the holiday.

1. Sign up with the booking sites
It is worth signing up with the booking sites such as Agoda, Hotel.com or Booking.com etc as a lot of booking sites has the rewards program. Different booking sites will have different rewards program. Hence, it is good to sign up with a few to get the best deal for your holiday.

Whenever you book through Agoda, you will be earning rewards points. You can accumulate the rewards points and redeem the points to lower the cost of the hotel.

Agoda Elite Member Rewards:

Award Level	Points Redeemed	Saving (US Dollars)
1	12,500	25
2	15,000	30
3	20,000	40
4	25,000	50
5	30,000	60

For Hotel.com, the rewards program will be whenever you book 10 nights of hotel stays you will get 1 night for free. It is a good deal should you be going for a long holiday.
Hotels.com Rewards: Stay 10 nights, earn 1 night free with over 100,000 eligible hotels worldwide! Plus, unlock secret members-only prices. Register now - it's free!

The other advantage of signing up with booking sites is that you will be informed via email of any promotion. This prevent you from missing out any good deal.

One important key to take note is that there might be expiry to the reward. Hence, do take note of the expiry date. Make full use of it before it expire.

2. Credit Card Promotion
A lot of banks tie up their perks with the booking sites. One of the common booking site is Agoda. Banks such as Citibank, UOB and ANZ, actually tie up with Agoda. For example, should you booking the hotel via Agoda UOB and use you UOB credit card to pay for the hotel, you will get 5% - 8% discount upon payment.

3. Hotel Price Comparison Site
Before booking the hotels for you holiday, it is important to do a price comparison between the different booking sites. As different booking site may have different promotion, thus it is important to compare to make sure that you get the best deal.

In the past, we will need to go to each booking sites and compare. However, now we do not need to do so. There are sites such as Trivago which can do that for you. Trivago searches through over 900,000 hotel deals, from 250+ booking sites and hotel chains at once. It provide you with the prices from various booking sites at a glance.



4. Mobile Deal
Booking of hotels is easy nowadays. You can book through your smart phone anytime anywhere. As such, a lot of booking site has mobile deal should you book through your smart phone. You will be surprise that the mobile can be really attractive and personally I have book through the mobile quite a few times.