Travelodium
Travel Club
At
Travelodium we aim to give you the best international travel information.
To
be able to do this we are about to commence our international travel club for
independent
travellers.
Our
travel club will offer discounts on hotel and bed and breakfast accommodation
and also tour packages.
What
are we offering?
When
you go into a travel agency and ask about a certain destination, what happens?
You get given a brochure and unless you are ready to book something, you get
asked to go away and come back once you're ready to spend some money. What
would happen if you asked about fishing charters in South
Africa
- a blank look or you'll need to book that on the internet. Well that's what
we're here for. We are compiling a list of hotels, bed and breakfast
accommodations and many different tours that will be available to members of
the travel club in one location. The types of holidays that we will offer are
things like cooking, fishing, surfing, golf, art retreats, yoga etc the types
of holidays where you are active, not just sitting around a pool, although
there's nothing wrong with doing that either.
How
will it work?
We
are presently contacting many travel companies and hotels throughout the world
with the purpose of asking them to participate and provide discounts to our
club members. Some of these discounts could be for the off season, others
throughout the whole year.
Why
are the hotels offering the discounts?
Travelodium
does not charge any commissions to hotel or travel company owners so they are
making a saving by not paying those commissions. Instead of charging
commissions Travelodium wants to forward the savings to YOU the
traveller.
So instead of an agent getting a commission you get a discount making your
trip cheaper.
Do
I have to book the tour and pay through Travelodium.com?
No,
all bookings will be taken and paid to the owners of the travel company/hotel
on their website. All you will need to do is quote your club member number to
get the discounts. Each of Travelodium's tour pages will provide links through
to the travel company/hotel website.
What
progress have you made?
Well,
we have a listing of 30,000 hotels throughout the world and we are presently
compiling a list of travel companies that would like to participate in the
club. We will keep you informed of progress on our monthly newsletter.