Hotels.com Coupon Code 2011

Hotels.com is a massive online travel site that unlike most other travel sites specializes in one thing and one thing only: flights. I'm just kidding they specialize in hotels of course. When I say massive, I truly mean massive. Hotels.com currently offers around 85,000 different properties including everything from small bed and breakfasts to giant all-inclusive resorts and from hostels and cheap motels to luxury business hotels. They offer everything from wilderness lodges where you enjoy the wildlife to downtown boutique hotels where you can enjoy the nightlife. If you want to get away from it all you can book accommodations at an inn in Kathmandu or if you just want to get away from your wife you can book a motel down the street. They literally have it all and the best thing about it is that they usually offer some pretty good site-wide Hotels.com coupon codes that you can use on any booking. 

Hotels.com is old! … I mean very well established. Hotel Reservations Network, the company that eventually became Hotels.com, was founded in 1991. It was originally a 1-800 number that people could call to get discount prices on hotels in major U.S. cities. In those days, people had to enter their coupon code with a rotary phone. In 1996, Hotel Reservations Network, or HRN, began to offer bookings on the internet for the first time. In 1999, HRN was acquired by USA Networks, Inc. which is the same company that owns the USA channel. In 2002, HRN officially launched Hotels.com which at the time offered around 5,000 properties. In 2004, Hotels.com started their "experts" campaign where staff members would travel to hotels, motels, and resorts all over the world and carefully review things like the food, the cleanliness of the room, and the beds. By this point they offered discounts on around 15,000 properties. Just a year later, in 2005, USA Networks (which had since changed its name but that's not important) spun off all of its travel businesses including Hotels.com and Expedia.com under the name Expedia, Inc. That same year they introduced both side-by-side comparisons and customer reviews. Within a year the number of properties on Hotels.com increased to an astounding 70,000. In 2007, Hotels.com first offered their discount booking service in Spanish. "How do you say coupon code in Spanish?" You may ask. "I don't know, look it up yourself." I may respond. In 2008, Hotels.com launched its iPhone App where travelers could book a hotel, using a coupon code of course, from their iPhone. In 2009, Hotels.com surpassed its 1,000,000 real customer review. Now, in 2011, offers over 85,000 properties most of which have many real customer reviews. 

I actually use Hotels.com fairly often when I travel and there are a few things that I really like about it besides just their generous Hotels.com coupon codes. The first is the fact that you have to actually stay at a hotel to post a review. A sad fact of the internet is that companies often write fake reviews of themselves. With Hotels.com I know that the person writing the review at least actually stayed at the hotel. Another thing I like about them is their simple customer rewards program. Every time that you stay 10 nights you get one night free. That's it. No annoying points or miles. I never have any idea what those numbers mean. "I have 500,000 miles; I'll take a round trip ticket to the moon." "I have 72 million points, what's that worth?" "Six dollars!" With Hotels.com any time you stay for 10 nights at any hotel on the site, even if you get a big discount with a coupon code, you get a night free. That's all you need to know. 

In addition to the 1000s of individual discounts and last minute deals that they offer everyday, there are almost always some great Hotels.com coupon codes available. Usually they involve getting a certain discount on any stay over a certain number of nights. For example, if you stay 3 nights, you get a $20 discount and if you stay 10 nights, you can use a different promo code for $100 off. In addition to these discount coupons they also sometimes offer a fun coupon code. For example, I've seen offers where if you book an upscale hotel for three nights or more you get a free Amazon Kindle or in the summer if you book any hotel for two nights or more you get a free gas card for $25. So every time that you book a room, make sure you come back and see if we have cool new Hotels.com coupon code 2011. At the very least you'll save a few bucks.