We are getting more and more requests to include hotels in our multi day tours in the UK.
Its not something we have focused on in the past, but it seems though we are going to have to look into this. Just wanting to see if anyone in the Travel Massive community can supply, advise or help with this situation for us 😀
We do many single day tours, but have various multiday offering and also do a lot of custom tours - if you want to check us out before replying here are our current tours bestuktours.com/tours/
We book hotels directly. I reach out to them, ask for STO/Nett rates, book provisional holds for my guests (depending on the destination -- can be 2 weeks to a couple months.
Lots of people use nett and not net. Weird, I know. Here's a sample email that I send - obviously, you'll want to write up a little story on yourself. I know folks are busy, but I also want them to take me seriously.
"Hello - I own a safari company based in Texas and also serve as Malawi's first and only Honorary Consul in the United States. I typically organize trips to Malawi, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, and Madagascar, (and occasionally, France and the Galapagos) but my clients have been asking me to organize trips to _ _ _ _ Many years ago I visited your hotel I remember the superb service and location. Can you please send me your STO/NETT Rates? I'm looking at organizing a _ _ _ _ next year. Here's my website: mysafari.org
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We are getting more and more requests to include hotels in our multi day tours in the UK.
Its not something we have focused on in the past, but it seems though we are going to have to look into this. Just wanting to see if anyone in the Travel Massive community can supply, advise or help with this situation for us 😀
We usually contract directly with the hotels, or, if it is a chain like IHG/Accor you can request through their groups desk.
I've sent out some emails to the chains so far IHG being one of them - good to know I've started on the right foot thanks Sandra :-)
We do many single day tours, but have various multiday offering and also do a lot of custom tours - if you want to check us out before replying here are our current tours bestuktours.com/tours/
We book hotels directly. I reach out to them, ask for STO/Nett rates, book provisional holds for my guests (depending on the destination -- can be 2 weeks to a couple months.
ah ha, that's a good trick of the trade, thank you so much, going to sound awfully professional asking for STO/net rates now :-)
Lots of people use nett and not net. Weird, I know. Here's a sample email that I send - obviously, you'll want to write up a little story on yourself. I know folks are busy, but I also want them to take me seriously.
"Hello - I own a safari company based in Texas and also serve as Malawi's first and only Honorary Consul in the United States. I typically organize trips to Malawi, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, and Madagascar, (and occasionally, France and the Galapagos) but my clients have been asking me to organize trips to _ _ _ _ Many years ago I visited your hotel I remember the superb service and location. Can you please send me your STO/NETT Rates? I'm looking at organizing a _ _ _ _ next year. Here's my website: mysafari.org
Best Regards,
Jordan Price
Thats super helpful, thank you ever so much :-)
Do you do "city break" type tours? I'm just thinking about my clients with long layovers at LHR?
We do indeed, these are our day trips in the UK: bestuktours.com/tours/discover-the-best-of-england/ happy to jump on a discovery call to see how we could make something mutually beneficial work