VoyagePrive, Another Hotel Private Sale Site, Comes to the US

Where: Paseo Taulat 278, Barcelona, Spain, 08019

September 9, 2010 at 10:19 AM | by JetSetCD | Comments (0)

Well, looky what we've got here. It's another private sale hotel site! This one—VoyagePrive—isn't anything new, however; it's been around for awhile overseas, bestowing travel deals on its 5 million members in Britain, France, Italy, and Spain. They've just opened up the site to the US, and so far, we're liking what we see. Too bad it's getting difficult to keep all the private sale sites straight.

VoyagePrive offers up a selection of approved hotels for 5-day sales, with room rates slashed up to 75% off. Looking at this week's sales, featuring $59 rooms at New Orleans' Hotel St. James, $135 junior suites with free WiFi at DC's Capitol Hill Suites, 2 nights with breakfast for $259 at Barcelona's AC Hotel and more, we'd say the average discount is 50% off. But then VoyagePrive goes a step further to offer multiple night packages at each hotel, so that the longer you stay, the higher your discount and lower nightly rate.

A perfect example of the tiered discounts is what they've got going with the AC Barcelona Hotel. Stay two nights for $259, or choose the 3-night package for $349 or 4 nights for $439 or 5 nights for $545 or 6 nights at $655 or 7 nights for $759. Keep in mind that it includes daily breakfast for two, two welcome drinks and a guaranteed room upgrade. The only problem seems to be that they charge for hotel WiFi.

Checking the hotel's website, we found two nights in their lowest room category for 260 EURO ($330) without breakfast or drink or upgrade, and 960 Euro ($1,221) for the 7 nights without the previously mentioned perks. Thus, it's pretty obvious that VoyagePrive has the upper hand in the discount game here.

Rest assured that we'll give this site a try on one of our upcoming trips and report back on how it went. For now, if you're sufficiently intrigued, you can get access to VoyagePrive by clicking here to sign up.

Oh, and this isn't the only new private sale site to hit the hotel world this week. TripAdvisor has just launched its own private-sale site, SniqueAway, which will start offering high-end hotel stays at properties such as the Greenbrier Resort and Reefs Bermuda from September 20.

We'll have more on SniqueAway once we've seen the discounts they'll be offering. In the meantime, we're off to build a wall-size flow-chart to keep all these private-sale sites straight ...

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