Greyhound is now offering discounted hotel bookings to those who either book a bus trip or simply join their Road Rewards program. I joined the program this morning to see if their prices were any good. I found that they did indeed have some excellent deals. Here are two examples:
Real 22% Discount
Via one search if found the best room rate at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress was $131 per night via Kayak (this matched the best price I could find by logging into Hyatt.com and trying various discount codes):
The Greyhound site found the same hotel for just $102 per night. That’s a 22% discount off the best alternative rate I could find:
Real 25% discount
Via a search during high tourist season in Florida, I found the best room rate at the JW Marriott Grande Lakes was $279 per night via Kayak
The Greyhound site found the same hotel for just $209 per night. That’s a 25% discount off the best alternative rate I could find:
Not all good deals
While I only ran a few searches so far, I tentatively learned the following:
- Most of the hotel search results that indicated a % discount really were cheaper than options found on Kayak (and yes, I did log into Kayak first)
- In a few cases Kayak found better deals than the discounted Greyhound options
- Search results that do not indicate a % discount are no better priced than the same hotels found elsewhere