Sunday, April 21, 2013

Money Saving tip for Disney 

Least Expensive Lodging:
Getting less expensive lodging is a great way to save money during your vacation. There are plenty of hotels outside Disney properties,where you can find very inexpensive lodging. Disney has good neighbor hotel program,which can found outside Disney properties at a very less price.these hotels are few miles from disney and provide free shuttle service to Disney. Apart from this, there are some other hotels on US-192 which are way less expensive.
Book a hotel with facility of microwave, fridge and dryer  in the room
It is always cheaper to book a room in a hotel, which offers microwave and fridge.Rather than spending money outside,families can save a lot by making use of theses facilities.Most of hotels also have a free shuttle as well as free breakfast in the morning. Make sure you call the desired hotel about above mention things.     
Book online to get cheapest rates: Booking online can give you great deals. Some time hotels give great discounts, if you call them directly. 
Visit in a low season: Families can save great deals of money by visiting Disney in a low season.It usually starts after summer break.So, during low season you can find lot of discounts on Disney tickets and hotel accommodation. Hotels on us 192 can go as low as 25 dollars per night.
Buy discounted tickets and saving cards: There are lot of places you can buy various saving cards. Theses cards can save lot of money. for example, Orlando magicard.Check out the links given below,
 1) www.go2orlando.com
 2)Mousesaver.com
Save Money in the Theme Parks
Bring along some snacks. Guests are permitted to bring snacks into the park.Always refill water bottle in the parks.Try having late breakfast,it can keep you going till late evening.

Monday, April 15, 2013

While selecting a hotel

Source:http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/4059056.html

There are lot of reason for selecting a hotel such as price,review and list goes on. According to a survey, location was one of the important factor for choosing a hotel, it would include proximity to all major attractions.For example,one of the reasons for coming to Travelodge Maingate Kissimmee, is location and its affordable price.This hotel is few miles from Disney and very economical.Most of our guest save lot of money on accommodation,which can be spent while visiting all major attraction in Orlando. Keeping location and the affordable price as a major priority while choosing a hotel does make a sense for all those travelers, who are on budget. There are many other guest for whom low price is not an important factor but location would matter a lot."Location also tends to be more important to older travelers (over 50 years old), with a high income (USD $100,001 – 150,000),who prefer staying in an upper midscale or upscale hotel".    

Another major factor was the past experience when choosing the hotel. Most of the hotels have lot of repeat guests and one of the important factor is their past experience. If past experience is good then guest would be more comfortable as he/she knows the surrounding and employees of the hotel. In this scenario, it is more likely that guest would stay again as well as would refer someone to the hotel.So, getting repeat customers is a great example of retaining customers and increasing occupancy of the hotel. All most, all the hotels try to attract repeat customers by giving some promotional offers like discounts on their stay. 

Rest of the Factors such as brand reputation,special promotion and loyalty programs more or less had same impact in selecting a hotel. It was very surprising see that positive online reviews was among last three in the list. In this age of internet, online reviews had lot of buzz but according to survey it did 't matter much to the guest.