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How to Get a Hotel Room Upgrade

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    Part of the video series: Travel Plans & Packing Tips

    From Quick Guide: Hotel Suites 101

    Summary: Hotel room upgrades are all about brand loyalty, so staying at the same hotel in every city improves the chance for upgrades through the acquisition of award points. Get a hotel room upgrade with tips from a travel agent in this free video on traveling and vacations.

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    Russ Handler owns an online travel agency, and he is a known travel expert in the Tampa Bay area who has been featured as an expert on travel for decades on local television and radio...read more

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    "Hi everyone, I'm Russ Handler, travel expert, and I just love to get upgrades at hotels, and you know what, you can too, did you know that getting the hotel room upgraded is a lot easier than you think? It all starts with brand loyalty. Whenever you travel try your best to stay in the same hotel in each individual city that you visit most frequently. Now this will do two things, it will establish as a customer, number two it will get you those all important points. Go ahead and book a standard room, but when calling to book your room, see if there's any upgrades available, or freebies at that time, perhaps they can give you some extra stay points or something to that effect. When you get there go ahead and say, look I stay in your hotel about fifty-five nights out of the year, I'm a little tired today, here's my credentials, do you have anything available that I could upgrade to? In some cases, if the facility is not full, they would be glad to do that if they see that you have a good loyalty card program. And again, that's the most important thing, being loyal so that you could bring out the card and say I've got fifty-five thousand points, I really need to get upgraded. But if you don't have a loyalty card, it never hurts to ask. I'm Russ Handler, and that's how it's done."

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