What is the Hotel Corporate Rate?

Hotel Corporate Rate is a discounted rate agreed upon when a company signs an agreement with a hotel for guests or employees of that company to stay at that hotel.

Many large companies have a lot of demand for travel, receiving clients or meetings every year, so they prefer to sign agreements with hotels to get more discounts and lower costs. On the other hand, although the hotel side has reduced profits, but it can get long-term stable customers, thin profit and more sales, which can also be a win-win situation.

When an agreement is signed, the hotel group usually provides a code for the company’s employees to use when making reservations, which is often referred to as the “Corporate Codes”.

Corporate Codes are usually restricted to employees of the contracted company and require the presentation of the relevant company employee ID/work badge at check-in or an email to the front desk using the company email address to verify the employee’s identity.

Some companies have horrible discounts on agreed prices, and it is not uncommon for prices to be cut in half.

How to get discount Hotel Corporate Rate?

Large companies that regularly book hotel rooms for their employees often receive different negotiated corporate rates, and you may need to show your employee ID to get the lower rate.

Even if you are not there on business, many hotels will offer corporate rates if you show your company ID. Another nice benefit is that whether you are traveling for business or leisure, they are usually available at corporate rates anywhere in the world.

Getting the corporate rate for your hotel room may be a great way to save a little money. However, don’t forget to check out other discount options, as promotional rates for seniors, AAA members or specific dates may end up being lower than the corporate rate.

Notes on the use of Corporate Rate

Normal company employees use their own company agreement price to stay in the hotel is very simple, remember to bring business cards and work badges on the line, if you encounter the need to verify the company email, then verify the good, formal employees should have the company suffix personal email.

Here to pay attention to those who want to impersonate the agreement price, after all, the agreement price discount is too attractive, some bold people want to mention and take the risk of making a fake work card to muddle through.

In the past, when the hotel did not check strictly, there are indeed many people succeeded. Later, the hotel realized that the problem was getting more and more serious and upgraded the means of strict investigation. From asking for business cards and work badges to company email verification and even contacting the company’s HR department for phone confirmation. Even some companies must use a designated system to make reservations, for example: Siemens, direct use of the code on the official website booking is invalid, you must use the HRS system to book.

So what are the risks of impersonating the Corporate Rate?

In fact, most hotels will still allow you to stay if you are found to be using the agreed rate, but you will need to stay at the BAR rate for the day.

There are some hotels that will refuse to allow you to stay, or ask you to pay a high amount of money. In the worst case, some hotels may even call the police. In addition, your membership account will be at risk of being blocked.

So I personally don’t recommend taking the risk of using the agreed rate. If someone is bent on using it and thinks it’s not a big risk, then here are some ways to improve your success rate.

Don’t use an agreement price with too big a spread. Usually the bigger the price difference, the stronger the hotel’s scrutiny will be, such as the example mentioned earlier, the agreement price is half cheaper than BAR, the hotel’s chances of scrutiny are very high. If the agreement price is only about 10% off, only a hundred or so cheaper, then the front desk will generally be too much trouble and not check the identity.
Dress to look businesslike. A shirt + pants + leather shoes will reduce the risk of being checked.
It is best to find a local hotel with a related company to use, because then there will be more people using it and the front desk will not check so strictly.
Some countries with lower hotel occupancy rates are more lenient (such as Vietnam/Cambodia and other third world countries), and the success rate will be higher. And Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea and other developed countries is really recommended not to impersonate, because these countries have a sound legal system, focusing on the spirit of the contract, in case they are more vigorous police arrest you, it will be very troublesome.
Pretend to help the company’s customers book rooms, first ask how to verify the identity of the hotel guests need to check in, need to report the work number or staff in person to handle? Or nothing to check?
Be prepared to get out of the plan. For example, the excuse that the company’s customers, an employee booked the room on behalf of a certain employee, pretend to call to the side to ask, and then bugger off. Never be strong with the front desk, you would have been justified, either BAR price to check in, or leave, do not make too embarrassing.

Other Solutions

In fact, there are many other risk-free, low-cost options available to you in addition to the agreed-upon rate.

Official Platform

The official direct sales is the most reliable and convenient booking platform for refunds and changes.
The official platform is not as cold as people think, in fact, like the OTA are constantly active all year round. The official may not be immediately discounted particularly much, but as long as you read the official rules of activity, play points, the average price down the room rate is very good value.
And you know what? The hotel front desk also gives priority to the members who booked in through their own official channels, followed by the higher rates, and finally the OTA.

Staff Price

If you are an employee or an immediate family member of an employee, of course, you should choose the employee rate. Especially the employees of large international hotel chains, low price travel around the world is not a dream.

BRG Home Prices

BRG full name Best Rate Guarantee, also known as the best rate guarantee. All you have to do is to make a good reservation on the official website of the hotel group, and then search the third party platform to compare the price. If you find the third party platform has a lower rate than the official website under the same time, same room type, same cancellation policy, non-promotion code and the same treatment, you can BRG it.
Different brands have different BRG policies, the common thing is that they will all give you a lower price than the low price you found to you.
But there are really few people who can really BRG to the hotel, and it takes a lot of time to find this hotel loophole, not to mention that you are stupid when the hotel controls the room rate?

Hotel outflow room & meal vouchers

Because the hotel will give away some room vouchers or meal vouchers to customers, the hotel’s annual event or employee incentive program will also issue some hotel vouchers to employees, and these free vouchers may be sold at a discount in some channels.

Promotional Room Vouchers

When the official website or reliable OTA promotion, you can stock up and spend.

Membership points privileges

In addition to hotel frequent flyer programs, you can also use third-party platform membership benefits, airline miles, credit card co-branding activities and other methods to help you get a good deal on a hotel.

Contact Hotel Sales

If you are not to make a trip plan, but because of work needs to stay in the same hotel for a long time, hotel sales to understand it?
Have met a high occupancy rate of guests to book rooms on their own impersonation of GE’s agreement price code to stay was cut off by the front desk, and later directly recommended the hotel sales to the guests, sales and he signed a very good agreement price.

In general, although the advantages of the agreement price are attractive, the disadvantage is that there are risks. From frugal to extravagant easy, from extravagant to frugal difficult. The more expensive the hotel, the better I understand the reasoning. Seize the time to make money, the early realization of the BAR price you can want to stay where you want to stay where the freedom of the hotel is the right way.