Finding the Best Room Rate

When employees need to spend nights in hotels during business travel, your company can benefit by finding the best room rate available. If possible, it helps to plan ahead. Showing up at a hotel on the night of stay can mean paying the full rate, and this can add up. If your company employees do a lot of traveling, a travel agent can help find good rates. Online travel sites can also be a great source of discounts, although this often requires payment beforehand, and these reservations might not be easy to cancel. A compromise can be booking the day of or the day before. This can even be done from a mobile phone with internet capability.

For additional ideas on how to get the best room rate, visit these articles from About.com, IndependentTraveler.com, and SavingAdvice.com. How do you find the best room rates for your business travel?

Toffer Grant is PEX's Founder and CEO. He founded PEX in 2006 as a prepaid card solution for small businesses. His background in the prepaid industry began at Clarity Payment Solutions, where he initiated 65 prepaid card programs in consumer, corporate, and emerging verticals of the prepaid card industry.