HotelChatter - Tag: choice hotels

Choice Hotels Gets Charitable with their Loyalty Program

KatieK — 2009-10-30T09:03:41-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/17697/5238_image_rt_choice_large.jpg" class="top"> Aww. It always cheers us up to see hotel brands using their power for good. This month <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Choice%20Hotels">Choice Hotels</a> supported Make a Difference Day, a national day of neighborly help. Choice Hotels employees joined Rebuilding Together volunteers to work with low-income homeowners, with roughly 700 reps from Choice Hotels doing their part to contribute some 5,000 volunteer hours. But heres how that relates to you: For every volunteer who joins the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/10/15/145848/80/hotels/HotelChatter_s_Guide_to_Loyalty_Programs_Choice_Hotels_ChoicePrivileges">Choice Privileges</a> rewards program by Dec. 31, Choice Hotels will donate $1 to Rebuilding Together, up to $50,000. Just for signing up, new loyalty program members get 500 bonus points, plus 500 more points if you stay before the end of 2009. Choice Hotels

For Better or Worse, These Hotels Have Realized 'There's An App For That'

Omri — 2009-10-13T17:43:36-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/22421/2009_10_12_HoteliPhones.jpg" class="top">We've been variously <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/8/11/61949/2575/hotels/Like_Duh_Hotels_Realize_How_Valuable_iPhone_Apps_Can_Be">hot</a> and <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/15/13409/0160/hotels/Omni_Hotels_Builds_iPhone_App_To_Help_Customers_Do_Umm_Stuff_">cold</a> about hotel chain iPhone apps. As a rule we embrace anything that can help us travel easier while already on the road, and we certainly embrace it if it lives in the App Store. But hotel apps fall into that dicey category where we're not sure that the bother that goes into them is worth whatever comes out. Hotel iPhone applications generally help you find a nearby chain hotel and check in through your rewards account. Sometimes they may automatically dial customer service. All of which is great except people rarely book within just one chain. Price is usually the most important factor, which means using a search engine, and

Choice Hotels Giving $25,000 in Cash to One Lucky Winner

juliana — 2009-09-16T16:48:27-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/choicepromotoday.jpg" class="top"> If you're a devoted viewer of the "Today Show" on NBC, then you may have been keeping up with the shows's <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32781841/ns/today-today_travel/">"Where Are We Today?"</a> segment where viewers have to guess the correct location before it's revealed the next day. But maybe you didn't know that the segment was being sponsored by <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/choice hotels">Choice Hotels</a> and as part of this sponsorship, the hotel collection is offering a lucky viewer to win a $25,000 cash prize. And no hotel stays needed! Of course, Choice would like you to spend your nights at their hotels (which include Comfort Inns, Cambria Suites and Quality Inns) and indeed you must be a member of their <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/10/15/145848/80/hotels/HotelChatter_s_Guide_to_Loyalty_Programs_Choice_Hotels_ChoicePrivileges">Choice Privileges</a> program

Like, Duh! Hotels Realize How Valuable iPhone Apps Can Be

amandak — 2009-08-11T16:53:29-05:00

From the tales of stuff-we-already-knew (but hotels didn't): potential guests who use iPhones are worth chasing. Of course they/we are! Chains like Choice Hotels and Wyndham Hotels are getting serious about mobile sites and iPhone apps so that future guests can get all the info they need while on the run, and it's all a whole lot more successful than they thought.

A Wyndham spokesperson said that potential customers accessing their mobile site "are converting at much higher rates than assumed" and the Choice people claim to have been the first brand with an iPhone app, and they're keen to keep doing more in this direction.

If You're Into Rachael Ray, You'll Dig Into This Comfort Inn Promo

Jenna — 2009-07-21T15:43:11-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/rachaelrayshowleopard.jpg" class="top"> We realize that not everyone is a Rachael Ray fan. We get that. She can be, uh, grating, and the cutesy acronyms like "EVOO" and catchphrases like "Yum-O" are not for everybody. But! We know she's got a loyal following, her magazine seems to be doing okay, her E! True Hollywood Story was surprisingly endearing and she remains ubiquitous on our TV, so we'll pass along this info to those of you who are keeping her on our radar: Comfort Inn is offering a Rachael Ray-themed "girlfriend getaway." Oh, yeah, we forgot to mention that you should probably have some friends in mind that might be into RR, too. But you've gotta win the package: Now through