Make an Offer - Negotiate Room Rates - Bidding on Hotel Rooms

Why can you make an offer on a room? Hotels operate at an occupancy rate of less than 100%. This means that rooms sometimes stand unfilled, so hotels are sometimes willing to drop the rate rather than have empty rooms. So we bring to you the ability to make an offer on a room, essentially bid for rooms, however should you choose to make an offer, and that offer is accepted, you are obligated to make the booking with the hotel. Hotels are not obligated to negotiate with you so if your offer is not accepted then you should not continue to try to negotiate with them.

Obligation: By proceeding with this feature and making an offer on a room, your offer will become a booking if the hotel accepts your offer.

Response time: You will receive a response to your offer within 12 hours of submitting it. In most cases, the response will be within 1 hour, however during busy times it may take up to 12 hours. If you don't receive a response within 12 hours, your offer will expire and you will need to re-submit it. If you submit your offer after 7pm at night, it will quite often go unanswered as most Hotels do not have overnight reservation staff working. Please submit your offer during business hours.

Counter-Offer: The hotel can counter your offer, however the counter-offer is final. You cannot negotiate the counter-offer. If the hotel counters your offer, you get 24 hours to decide whether to accept the counter-offer. The offer will expire after 24 hours. If you are not happy with the counter offer, please do not submit another offer to the same Hotel as they are likely to ignore it.

Payment: Your credit card details are required at the time of making an offer to secure your booking in the case that your offer is accepted by the hotel. If the offer is accepted, your credit card will be charged a 10% deposit plus a $2.95 booking fee. The balance will be payable directly to the hotel, and they may charge your credit card the balance before you arrive, but if they don't then you will need to pay them upon arrival.

Options to remove: This gives you the ability to remove certain inclusions that you may not need. The removal of these inclusions can sometimes make the room rate cheaper.The options only apply if the the room is advertised as including them:
- Service (service includes bed-making, rubbish removal, fresh towels etc.)
- Breakfast (some hotels include breakfast in the room rate)
- Parking (some hotels provide parking free of charge as a courtesy to the guest)

These inclusions do not always apply to every hotel, however the option is there for you to remove them if they do.
N.B Not all hotels will agree to the removal of these options.

HOW TO USE:

1. Log-in if you are a Member - tgis will ensure you receive your membership discount off the Negotiated Rate.

2. Choose the location you wish to stay at and click "Search"

3. Choose the Hotel you want and click the "Book Now" button

4. Click the "Make an Offer" button

5. Read and agree to the Terms & Conditions

6. Select the Room Type

7. Change the check-in date to the date you wish to arrive

8. Choose the Number of nights

9. Choose the Number of Rooms

10. Put your offer amount in the "My Offer" field for each night

11. Select the Number of Adults & Children

12. Enter your contact details

13. Enter your Credit Card details

14. Click the "Make an Offer" button

15. Make sure you check you email within 24 hours of submitting your offer, as any counter offer will only be valid for 24 hours.