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As with every Hotelier, you know perfectly well, that a room not sold on the night can never be sold again. This is one of the few products with only a 24hrs shelf life. Once it's gone, it's gone. This is why you decide to discount rack rates when you realise that you will not sell all your rooms for that evening.

What we offer is a completely new approach to selling hotel rooms.

The RoomAuction.com

- An Internet database of UK hotels, with a feature for bidding on your room rates. A place where potential guest see your advert and your rack rates then decides how much he is ready to pay. Quotes get to you straight away by email and from then it's up to you to negotiate, up-sell and book the customer.

The system gives you full control and flexibility. You are not forced to accept low rates and you do not need to show to your potential guests how low you are willing to go with your rate. This is all easily managed by Control Panel, where by using your login and password you can change your details; update your rates, pictures and information about your hotel. On joining we will send you full instructions on how to use the system and how to maximise your sales.

Proven System has been designed by hoteliers like you based on years of Room Sales, Management and Hotel Reception experience. We aim to help you in selling your empty bedrooms at a rate you can accept, and that fits all potential customers. We are not here to compete with any other sales initiatives, only to complete your existing methods.

The idea has already proved to be very successful. At the Washbourne Court Hotel in the Cotswolds, the system was based on the hotel's own website and on average created 20 accommodation enquires each week. Within the first year of running system had generated over £25,000 in additional revenue.

There is no commission, but just an annual fee that will pay back with first 2 or 3 bookings received through the system.

£250 per annum or

£400 for two years

Special rates (extended membership) are available for small hotels with less than 12 rooms. If you are interested, please fill in an entry form and we will send you some more details about joining and making the most of your room sales with RoomAuction.com.

You can also contact our sales office via email on hotels@roomauction.com or by calling on +44 (0) 207 9938201

Best regards,


RoomAuction.com Team

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FOR HOTELIERS

How to Add my Hotel?
Can any hotel be added?
Do you charge commission?
How does Money Back Guarantee work?
Why don`t you have thousands of hotels on your site?
Do we need to update our availability?
Can we change our details after sign up?
Where do you advertise?
How many hits do you have?
How much are hotels getting from RoomAuction?
Is there any minimum contract?
Can I see your T&C?

How to Add my Hotel?(back)
To add your hotel, you must fill in a simple entry form (click here). Once you do this it will be sent to us for initial approval. You will then get a confirmation email with login details to upload pictures, rates and facilities. Should you wish so, we can do it all for you at no extra charge.



Can any hotel be added?(back)
Yes, however we abide by a golden rule: We will not take more hotels on board then we can satisfactory serve.



Do you charge commission?(back)
No. There is no commission, but just an annual fee that will pay back with first 2 or 3 bookings received through the system. We guarantee that each hotel will receive AT LEAST TWICE as much in value of booking enquiries then the membership fee paid.



How does Money Back Guarantee work?(back)
Because we are certain that hotels we take on board will benefit from our system, we guarantee that each hotel will get at least twice in booking offers than the annual fee paid. If we would not keep to our promise we give you all your money back.



Why don`t you have thousands of hotels on your site?(back)
We abide by a rule, that we never add more hotels to our directory than we can satisfactory serve. This is why we only take as many hotels, as we have high value targeted traffic on our website. At RoomAuction we base on long term relationships with hotels, so we need to make sure that all of them benefit in an equal and honest way.



Do we need to update our availability?(back)
No. Our system is based on individual enquiries, so you reply to each potential directly. That is why we are so flexible, there is no availability updates, need for close-outs, room allocation…



Can we change our details after sign up?(back)
Yes. At all times you have full access to Hotel’s Control Panel, where you can change all details to include: photos, description, room rates, hotel equipment, contact details. This service is provided free of charge and is available to all members.



Where do you advertise?(back)
We advertise in many ways. Most of our traffic comes from Google and it’s partners (MSN, AOL, Ask Jeeves, Multimap and many others). We also widely advertise on eBay by selling rooms for some of our hotels. Apart from online advertisement we also promote RoomAuction in national and local newspapers (i.e. The Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, .net Magazine, Webuser) as well as by printed materials delivered directly to homes of our repeat and potential guests and customers. See more about where to we advertise in the Add your Hotel Section



How many hits do you have?(back)
Currently it's over 1 mln hits per month (Data from October 2006). This number is continuously growing due to new marketing campaigns launched regularly. The source of this traffic are among the others recent editorials in Sunday Times (29th May 2005, May 2006, Aug 2006 and others), Webuser, .net Magazine, Elle as well as an extended Affiliate Programme and 'Free Mug', 'Free Break' and other promotions.



How much are hotels getting from RoomAuction?(back)
Currently on average each hotel is getting just over £7200 worth of booking offers each year. Considering that about 65% of enquiries are converted to confirmed bookings, that gives an annual estimate of £4680 in accommodation revenue. This equals to 5.3% commission from each booking. We obviously do not charge this commission, but this is simple calculation of how much your annual fee is worth with us. (Figures updated: August 2006)



Is there any minimum contract?(back)
No. After the initial period that you have paid for, the hotel is free to decide if they would like to continue selling their rooms with us. No hassle, but we are sure you would like to stay for anouther year. We put a lot of the annual fee in direct advertising of your hotel, to bring you good value for money and maintain a long term relationship. To maintain the listing visible at all times we do renew automatically unless cancelled.



Can I see your T&C?(back)
Yes, you can download a PDF version of our Terms and Conditions of trading here

Hotel Auction Rates shown on this site, are subject to 'bidding down' - you tell them how much you can pay!

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