Around 400 cheap hotels Chicago!?
How to make a choice?

In such magnificent city it is very hard to make a choice of one particular cheap hotels Chicago or some exclusive renaissance Chicago hotels, as The Second City and its area has around 700 all kind of them.

Although I believe you didn’t come to Chicago to spend time in hotels, it would be shame to spoil your holiday or business trip just by bad luck of hotel choice.

In this short guide, I will show you the key of on-line hotel choice and how to benefit from your Hotel stay. However, if you just looking for quick hotel booking, please visit my Smart Travel Station in reservation section.

Let’s look where is the Key of Choice!

As an Independent Travel Agent, I can say that it is very difficult to make a choice of one particular hotel, as it depends not just of hotels room rate, but also of tens of different kind of charges, including - tax, fees, car parking, Internet, phone and more. In order to make a choice of cheap hotels Chicago you firstly need to understand your specific needs for your trip and only then you can start some research.

There are seven hotel classification systems and each of it can give you different information about particular hotel. If I look on Star ranking system, which is the closest hotels classification system today, it doesn’t give any help for choice you need to make. Sometimes three Star hotels in one place can be different to some other just couple of blocks ahead. With this system, it is impossible to make some right-minded choice.

In travel business, I can see many misleading advertisements that develop some expectations, but when you follow it, you get some big disappointment. One of them is discount rate advertisement, which you can see in different on-line travel websites. You can read more about it in my Chicago hotel discounts page.

I am confident that the best way to make hotel choice for your trip is with help of Travel Agent, as only then you can be sure how much and for what you need to pay. However, if you decide to book a hotel yourself, I can suggest some guidance, which I would call as the best Key of On-line Hotel Choice.

Key is Hotels Loyalty program!

Loyalty or Reward program is like special community, which gives you personal touch, prestige and comfort. Joining to this program is your presentation and your advance payment for chosen hotel.

When you present yourself even to the cheap hotels Chicago as its Loyalty program member, it means for them that you are clever customer who didn’t choose the hotel just by the price or Star ranking or some silly on-line advertisement, but who did some research work before booking.

It is even harder for the hotel staff if they see that you are new member of hotels Loyalty program. It means that this particular stay will be test for the prestige of entire hotel chain.

Even if something happens and you are disappointed with hotels services, as a Loyalty program member you will have better opportunities to send a claim and the most important get the feedback - maybe even some discount for your next trip.

But if you are customer, who booked cheap Chicago hotels by luck of list in some booking engine, they know that you will not return to them anymore, so they don’t pay respect for you.

The most important is, that it doesn’t matter if you booked some cheap hotels Chicago or renaissance Chicago hotel or if you paid for it $300 per night or $50 per night, only Loyalty program will make the difference.

I am sure that hotel professionals will disagree with me and will tell how they care about each customer. It could be true, but in reality in hotels work simple people, who make judgments and value each customer according to first look.

Therefore, I can tell you this in one sentence -

Without Loyalty program you are invisible customer to any Hotel!

How to make a choice in Chicago?

Your choice for cheap hotels Chicago should be based on two major parameters – price (total – room rate, taxes, parking, etc.) combination with Loyalty or Reward programs offer.

So, here are my suggestions

• In my review about each program you will find sentence about price range. From the average price you can see if you generally can afford it. If you can, then go to the next point

• Visit particular Loyalty program Web site and select the dates when you plan to stay in Chicago. Then start to search for hotel. You will see all program hotels in Chicago area, so choose one hotel, but don’t book it yet

• Take next program according to your requirements and do the same

• In the end you will have maximum of 10 the best, cheap Chicago hotels for you. So, now you can look on Reward program and take into account all other parameters – locations, style, extra offers

When you have made your final decision based on all your requirements, you can enroll for hotels Reward program.

In addition, I would like to mention that it is important to have hotels loyalty program member number before you book cheap hotels Chicago. It doesn’t matter where you book your stay, just before you do that; ask if this exact hotel rate will allow you to obtain points. Via my Smart Travel Station you can obtain points for your program, so after research, described in this web page, you can book hotel wherever is cheaper for you.

Here are some general tips

• Cheap hotels Chicago must be booked at least 21 day before stay

• Upon check in, present your membership card or number, so that the hotel staff knows that you are its Loyalty program member

• Always print out all reservations, as technology does make mistakes

• Use all options what hotel offers for you as a Loyalty program member. If they should deliver you newspaper, than check if they do so, even if you are not reading it

• Save all your bills, tickets, etc., till you receive points in your account of every purchase. It could take maximum eight weeks, before all points will be credited. If you don’t see them in this time, then contact seller or Loyalty program provider.

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