United Vacations

Aloha Kakou:

Here's how the Outrigger Maui Eldorado appears on United Vacations' website. United Vacations is one of the larger Hawaii wholesale companies.

http://www.unitedvacations.com/planning/hotel.do?hotelId=OGG_ME_ME

Outrigger Maui Eldorado On Tripres.com

Aloha Kakou:

This is how the Outrigger Maui Eldorado appears on the site of tripres.com, one of our electronic wholesalers.

http://www.tripres.com/hotels/info.aspx?hotelID=5230&hotel=Outrigger+Eldorado

Outrigger Maui Eldorado on Tripres.com

Aloha Kakou:

Thought you might like to see our listing on Tripres.com, an OTA (on-line travel agency) that we contract with on a wholesale basis.

http://www.tripres.com/hotels/info.aspx?hotelID=5230&cacheRateID=27220598&checkRates=true

Travel Impressions Promotion

Aloha Kakou:

Travel Impressions, one of our primary wholesale partners, has all of it's promotions to travel agents, including those for the Outrigger Maui Eldorado, listed here:

http://www.travimp.com/promo.php?msg=ogg

BlueSky Tours Hot Deals

Aloha Kakou:

Blue Sky Tours has announced a rate of 3 nights for $528 on a one bedroom garden view unit here at the Outrigger Maui Eldorado Resort.

Please see the link below for more details.

Outrigger Maui Eldorado Resort (Condo)
Aloha Rate 1 Bedroom Garden.
Grocery Certificate- stay 5 nights and receive extra savings for your stay. Call for details (not valid for Aloha/Simple Saver rates).
Booking Bonus- earn $50 for each 5 night stay booked. See link (OR BONUS)
Outrigger Specialists Program- earn, learn & more. See our link (OR SPECIALIST)
3 nights $528 for four
Valid now - 12/22/09 07/01/10 - 12/22/10

http://www.blueskytours.com/HotDeals.html

Eight Hundred Pound Gorilla

Aloha Kakou:

You may be interested in reading about this new tack being taken by Expedia. It would seem that Expedia is trying to exact promises from hotel companies for them to remain on Expedia's web site. Those promises include exclusive rates, last room availability and penalties to properties who do not use Expedia 100% of the time. The latest player in this saga, Choice Hotels, would not agree to Expedia's egregious terms and thus Expedia has deleted all of Choices properties from their web site.

How this will play out in the future is any one's guess but I can advise you that Outrigger Hotels has had a long history of rate transparency. Each one of our wholesale partners receives the same net rates. Our retail rates are the same, no matter which channel guests book through. Rate parity and transparency is the only way to go to be fair to the guests and to all of the wholesalers. How those wholesale partners choose to make their money is then up to them.

http://www.hotelsmag.com/article/CA6702525.html?nid=3457&rid=14377667