You are the travel agent
Travel agents book hotels and resorts at prices the public never sees. Your own agent login gives you those prices, for hotels and for seven-night resort weeks. You decide where to go. We teach you how to use it.
Door one
Start here. Your login books the same hotels you already search on the public sites, at the rate an agent sees: the city stay, the weekend, the night on the way. On our own screen those rooms came in at about half of the public hotel sites. Hyatt and Best Western publish agent rates of up to 50 percent off on their own sites; that is the same mechanism behind your login. Search your dates, put the public price beside the login price, and book the better number.
Door two
Resorts have unsold seven-night weeks. They land on your login at a flat wholesale price. You book them yourself.
Where the public price for the week is $1,500 or more. Orlando $939 against $2,723. Maui $949 against $2,760. Los Cabos $896 against $1,383.
The best prices show up inside two to three weeks of departure. Maui inside two weeks was $949. The same studio three weeks out was $1,716.
Saturday or Sunday start. Book when your dates are solid.
How a booking works
Step 1
Hotels for a hotel stay. Resort weeks for a seven-night trip with a Saturday or Sunday start.
Step 2
Room, dates, taxes, total. Open the public site for the same room and dates. Keep the lower number.
Step 3
Your points come off the top. You press the button, on your own login. Nothing is added.
The credit
Every month, $135 of credit lands on your login and waits for you. Twelve months is $1,620, enough for a resort week at the agent's price with change left over. Spend it on either door when you book. One week a year becomes two.
Who it is for
You are 44, the calendar is opening, and the trips you skipped are back on the list.
You are in your late twenties and can move into the two-to-three-week window where resort weeks are cheapest.
You are in your early sixties, retiring, and want 5 star comfort at agent prices four to six times a year.
You see both numbers before you pay anyone. The hotel door for city stays, the resort door for the big weeks. Four to six weeks a year on the budget that used to buy two.
Another year of the same two trips at the retail number, and the weeks you wanted stay on the list.