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Old 11-10-2006, 22:45
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Originally Posted by Insomniac View Post
Have to agree with To the beach. Normally agencies get sold a certain number of rooms at a hotel. These rooms then get sold by the agent and since agencies buy in bulk they get better rates which often times the reservations manager/front desk officer cannot offer.

I'm not sure that applies here - the likes of sawasdee and phuket.com aren't buying up all the rooms and reselling rather they get a cut of the bookings I imagine. It's a good point about the walk-ins and so on but if you phone up the hotel quoting them the price I don't see what they gain by turning you down and certainly they lose something.
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