Originally Posted by
blackhole
Very rare do I read anything interesting here or at WOV. But you have to give Mission146 credit for making that “Third Party Hotel Booking Scams” thread interesting.
Throughout my life I traveled often mostly up and down the east coast for mostly business. Of course, planned family vacations could’ve ended up anywhere on the globe, but for the most part were concentrated on the east coast. As my boys started to grow older depending on where I had to go with business on many trips, I would include the rest of the family if there was a fun weekend able to be had.
My head office made and handled all of my travel plans. They always checked if there were special requests, but for the most part as long as they were reputable places and not fleabag hotels I really didn’t care. I think I may have complained once or twice about something obvious. I always took you get what you got gracefully and moved on. If the food was bad, I would just go to a restaurant next meal. If the place was to uncomfortable to stay for a couple of days, I would call the girls and they would set me up some place else and I would just check out.
Of course, my traveling days were during a different time. Today travel plans took on a whole new meaning with the internet. Mission146 did a hell of a job explaining what actually goes on behind the check-in desk in today’s market with firsthand knowledge.
I think it’s worth reading and, in just one of the ways how the internet can convince people of one thing when actually are costing the people more in an effort to line their own pockets via the back door.
AP’s will call it just another Advantage Play, and say good for the clever thinking. But it also shows there’s a lot of smoke and mirrors going on to squeeze every buck from anyone willing to believe the nonsense they read on the internet.
For the average person traveling to Vegas this knowledge could be an Advantage Play. More of the type of things you once read about here when Alan owned the site.