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The Offer
- Online travel agency is offering an instant discount of 15% on hotels when you use promo code SAVENOW. You’ll also get an additional 15% back in Orbucks
The Fine Print
- Book by June 26th, 2020 for travel by June 30th, 2021
Our Verdict
You can try going through a portal for additional cash back, but the SAVENOW promo code is not listed so it probably won’t work. You are probably better off purchasing a Hotels.com gift card at a discount and then stacking that with every 10 night free promotion.
I did a dummy booking and noticed it’s only for ‘pay now’ hotels and the discount is capped at $100.
Then I read the T&C’s (wrong order I know) and those confirm $100 cap, and also say the 15% promo orbucks must be used within 60 days.
Pay Now hotels appear to sometimes allow a full refund, but they have your money until then – who knows who actually has it if the specific hotel or orbitz goes belly up in the next year.
I then noticed my orbucks account was $0.00, as regular orbucks expire in a year after earned. Oh well – the kicker for this potential trip is that I found a much lower rate directly on the hotels website that wasn’t even prepay.
I do use the occasional orbitz or hotels.com discount code. But usually last minute when the codes are good and prepaying isn’t a risk.