B&B Guests Earn Rewards 10 Times Faster Than Leading Hotel Chain
If you are looking to pile up free-night rewards from frequent stay programs when you travel, we've found that you can get more bang for your buck staying at a bed and breakfast. Here's a little test we did:
Rewarded 10 Times Faster than at Marriott
Picking up the phone, we called Marriott Rewards with a standard request to earn a free stay. We asked about booking a $209-per-night room at the Marriott Suites, which would get us a total of 627 points per night. In order to compile enough points to get a free night at their lowest level, we would need 7,500 points. That means we would have to spend $2,500, staying about 11.9 nights in order to get that free night reward.
Now we'll check how travelers can earn a free stay at B&Bs nationwide, in addition to a few other B&B-related values. Bed and breakfasts are hard to beat when it comes to unique lodging, hospitality and what you can get for your hard-earned dollar. If you are interested in making your money work better for you, take into consideration a couple of items:
First, more than 1,560 Bed and Breakfasts and country inns nationwide will reward you for staying a night by giving you a second night free. Why? Because small Bed & Breakfasts do not have large advertising budgets and by offering a second night free they receive your word of mouth advertising.
The website iLoveinns.com offers this Buy-One-Night-Get-The-Second-Night-Free program. The typical amount a traveler can save is $140, but the savings can be much more. Compare this to the nearly 12 nights you have to purchase at a Marriott in order to get your free night or even their lesser promotions like a $25 coupon for gas.
Depending on the individual bed and breakfast or country inn, a traveler can save as much as $650. Plus, the buy-one-get-one promotion is an immediate reward.
You can save even more when you take into consideration your meal expense. The bed and breakfast, after all, comes with breakfast. But many inns also take it a step further an offer various free business services and such items as free drinks or snacks (and not with a mini-bar price).
Money and Memories Go Further with Bed and Breakfast Trips
Armed with this knowledge, for instance, take this Craftsman-Style California Bed and Breakfast, the Inn at Seventeen Mile Drive in the heart of the Monterey Peninsula.
Choose from rooms with views of the sea or garden in the main house of this three-building bed and breakfast. Or, enjoy the oak and redwoods in the chalet and cottage rooms. Unwind in the spa beneath the towering trees or the gardens whose guests also include the occasional deer and monarch butterfly. Maybe sip some champagne near the fountains and koi ponds. With the Buy-One-Night-Get-One-Night-Free program, guests will save anywhere from $145 to $290 at this lovely property.
Hard to beat an excellent experience and an excellent value. When you're trying to decide how to find that next free-night perk, take a look at a property like that California bed and breakfast. The B&B free-night program is a superb travel value.
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Jane Leisteiner is a frequent traveler and writer. For additiaboutal informatiabout about California bed and breakfasts or to discover thousands of bed and breakfast inns in the free night program, visit the American Historic Inns site.
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