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BobOrme · 07-05-2009, 12:24 AM

A room reservation made online through either Wyndham Rewards or Super 8 can sometimes have separate Advance Purchase rates that are lower (usually around $5/night) than their other special (I book AARP/Senior) rates. If you book the advance purchase room rate, you buy it the minute you click the complete the reservation button. No refunds. Period. If you use another travel site (like Yahoo/Travelocity or Orbitz) to book Wyndham or any other chain, they are almost all prepaid, no refund reservations. This is standard practice and not specific to any motel chain.

I have run into circumstances where calling the hotel to cancel or change a reservation resulted in confusion by the desk clerk who answered the phone. He/she thought that because the reservation was made online, they couldn't cancel or change it. Wrong! This also isn't specific to any hotel chain.

There's nothing wrong or different about Super 8's reservation system. Read what you're reserving before you reserve it. Individual hotels will have different cancellation policies, i.e., it might be 3:00 (or 4:00 or 6:00) p.m. local time the day of check-in or you will be charged one night, all the way to having to cancel the day before arrival, but advance purchase for an entire stay is always spelled out before you make the reservation.

07-05-2009, 12:24 AM	#5
BobOrme Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 25 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Avoid Super8 Motels A room reservation made online through either Wyndham Rewards or Super 8 can sometimes have separate Advance Purchase rates that are lower (usually around $5/night) than their other special (I book AARP/Senior) rates. If you book the advance purchase room rate, you buy it the minute you click the complete the reservation button. No refunds. Period. If you use another travel site (like Yahoo/Travelocity or Orbitz) to book Wyndham or any other chain, they are almost all prepaid, no refund reservations. This is standard practice and not specific to any motel chain. I have run into circumstances where calling the hotel to cancel or change a reservation resulted in confusion by the desk clerk who answered the phone. He/she thought that because the reservation was made online, they couldn't cancel or change it. Wrong! This also isn't specific to any hotel chain. There's nothing wrong or different about Super 8's reservation system. Read what you're reserving before you reserve it. Individual hotels will have different cancellation policies, i.e., it might be 3:00 (or 4:00 or 6:00) p.m. local time the day of check-in or you will be charged one night, all the way to having to cancel the day before arrival, but advance purchase for an entire stay is always spelled out before you make the reservation.