How to score a VIP treatment while on the road

When Nicole Hockin vacations in Rome at the end of the month, he the wind in front of the safety car to jump the line from the airport and get a free night in his hotel when he arrives.

Hockin has not been a high-powered business executive or a wealthy VIP. Denver travel blogger is ClearMe, of which $ 179 a year to help members go through a separate, shorter security lanes at airports in Denver and Orlando – and soon 10 other cities. He is also a member of hotels.com welcomerewards's loyalty program through which members receive a free night's stay at 60 000 hotels worldwide.

Hockin also be handled only by e-mail to his hotel in Rome and asks the passenger to pick up her and her husband at the airport 50 euros – the same amount they pay for train and then taxi to hotel.

In these days of climbing prices for airline tickets, baggage charges, resort fees, and tacked on, rental car surcharges, it's not easy for the VIP passengers feel the love.

Hockin, but shows that it is possible to settle in driver's seat in what has become a seller's market. A little persistence and a friendly smile to help.

Deals on demandLoyalty programs can give passengers more legroom and aircraft upgrades, two-for-one deals on hotels and VIP cocktail reception on cruise ships. But if you look around, you will find many other services that continue to want to schmooze for all types of travelers.

For example, travelers to call the shots iStopOver.com, vacation rental site. Site, a new feature called "WiseAsk" to allow people to request in detail what they are looking for, and holiday homes – for example, Paris, April, $ 600, 2 bedrooms, bringing my dog and want to down pillows. "These requirements are then sent out to thousands of property owners, who then offer the business.

Martha Gillette is a Fayetteville, Ga., was recognized for his vacation this month using another site, Yuupon.com. He says he sticks a lot – $ 255 and three-day stay at the posh Sandestin Beach Resort in Destin, Fla. But unlike other discount travel sites such as Priceline and Hotwire, Yuupon allows buyers to see what hotel they get, and they may even change their minds. Travelers can withdraw up to a year to save documents or transfer them to family and friends.

When Gillette knows that rain was forecast during his planned visit, he asked Yuupon if he could change the dates of his arrival three days earlier. They agree.

"It is a rare, rare thing can do what I did," says Gillette.

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Disney also will give customers more VIP treatment with the online reservation system now operates, which allows people to reserve ride times its theme parks at home.

While Delta Air Lines is to provide passengers with more to say about what it takes to get them to agree to run into a crowded flight. Airline to Priceline-style online auctions, where passengers say how much money they want to take a flight from the encounter. They are asking for their own computers or airline kiosks and the airline will most advantageous offer, and give the winners "Delta Dollars – The supporting documents for future flights.

Dave Maney on a business trip found its way to avoid collided with the airline – not to mention to avoid baggage fees – about his recent trip between Boston and New York City. He skipped part of the airplane.

Instead, charge $ 200 a flight, he went online to buy a $ 15 Ticket BoltBus. Taking the bus, he got more leg room and free Wi-Fi, and the trip took the same amount of time than a flight, through a security headache not wait for the machine and onto the cab of the hotel.

"I would not say it all" Maney says. "But it was so pleasant as airline travel."

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Let yourself be wooedWhen it comes to accommodations, many hotels are still ready to woo the guests, even though demand is up, and hotel reservations. Additional features such as free gourmet breakfast, $ 50 spa treatments or a house cocktail hour can really come to leave, "says Gabe Saglie, editor and Travelzoo.com, which publishes travel and local deals. "It's about LOOKING cost of the room."

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Many hotels, a concierge is often key to a better service to paying customers on a regular basis. They may have free tickets to museums and exhibitions and first-hand information and discounts on good restaurants, "says Hockin.

Hockin has asked the concierge to arrange taxis into a corner and give him a bottle of wine, and again, half a dozen cupcakes in his room when he arrived. Many times, he even talked his way out to pay a daily $ 15 "resort fee" tacked on, and usually fall in the context of the checkout.

"Let the Concierge be your BFF, and access to staff," Hockin said.

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Other perks can be had for passengers who request it. If you stay at one of IHG hotels in 4000, they pay for their checked baggage fees. Kimpton Hotels offers in-room massages and facials, and upon request, even lend you a goldfish room for the night.

At the Benjamin Hotel in New York, "sleep concierge" to set you up with a massage bed, white noise machine, eye mask, lavender, and turn-down menu 12 pads, including magnetic therapy pillow, pillow and water. The hotel guarantees a good night's sleep or get a free night.

Good pillows are a huge hit Megan Chandler, the Indianapolis TV director, who is sleeping badly and runs twice a month for work. He will stay there – and the memory foam pillow – every time he visits New York City. Some of the landfill, the staff now knows his name and the front desk manager is even fixed his cell phone to him.

"Select the hotel you like and make yourself another customer," Chandler says.

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When Chandler to travel elsewhere, they often call the hotel and ask them to beat the price of their competitors. "When I want to get a better deal, ask the sales instead of calling the 100-800 number," he says.

Tourists can also get more attention – and the bigger the discounts – which are vacationing in the city during the off-season or staying over a weekend hotel downtown business district, says Saglie.

"Thinner crowds, you will get more attention," he says.

Revision is part of the room later in the day can also increase your chances of a free upgrade to a bigger room, "says Saglie. Often do not show other rooms, and just a friendly can go a long way.

"I have received updates, just because I'm nice and I ask," Saglie says. "It's amazing, but it does make a difference."

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