How to get £10 of free Booking.com hotel credit

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• Peter Taysum says:

  15 Jun15 June 20:32

  Gif £10 credit, but looking for a hotel for five nights whilst building work taking place in my flat; hotels.com £100 cheaper…

  May be helpful in the future,

• Adam says:

  15 Jun15 June 20:38

  Worked for me, thanks.

• Concerto says:

  16 Jun16 June 09:03

  Isn’t booking.com one of the ones that we should be boycotting? Coming out of Corona I don’t think we should be forgetting these companies that have behaved badly and, although I rarely use them, booking.com got a lot of bad press along the way.

  • WaynedP says:

    16 Jun16 June 09:28

    I had four bookings totalling 7 nights with them when Covid-19 struck and I had no problem cancelling with out any cancellation fees.
    One booking was prepaid, which was promptly refunded once I established and followed the procedure for cancelling.
    I have no reason to boycott them.

  • Peter Stewart says:

    16 Jun16 June 20:49

    I’ve not heard of any reason to boycott them. Do you have any sources to news articles etc. ?

    I’m all for looking into it, and supporting a boycott of any company that didn’t act in good faith during this time.

• WaynedP says:

  16 Jun16 June 09:38

  Booking.com is my main hotel booking site.
  I use it regularly and have earned “Genius Level 2” status, which I think is as high as it gets.
  I’ve picked up a few pounds worth of credit along the way, mainly from leaving short survey responses on several past stays.
  One limitation about having credit in your “wallet” is that it can only be applied when paying at time of booking. But that negates one of the main benefits of many of booking.com’s properties which is that you can book a reasonable “pay at the hotel” rate far in advance and cancel without any cost or fees, often up to 48 hours before arrival.
  I use it to book holidays fairly far out in advance (before cheap flights are available) and just cancel at no cost if I don’t get a flight at my target price. But you can’t use the wallet credit when booking this way, so I already have several pounds worth of rolled over, unused credit.
  Just something to consider.

• abc says:

  16 Jun16 June 10:32

  This doesn’t work for me, even though, when I go to the list of favourites, the promotion is advertised.

  • Leon says:

    16 Jun16 June 15:26

    Update to laresr version of the app. Once I did that it worked for me

• Kevin says:

  17 Jun17 June 21:30

  Sorry could anyone shed a light where is the wallet being hiding within the app as I can’t see it.

  • Rob says:

    18 Jun18 June 09:37

    Weirdly I couldn’t find it either. However if you go into the ‘bell’ notification icon at the top, and click the notification saying ‘Your £10 has been credited’, there is a link there to the wallet page.

    Alternatively, log in on desktop and it is clear.

• Chris says:

  18 Jun18 June 16:13

  Worked for me.

  A few things to note on Rob’s suggestion of using booking.com and hotels.com:
  – hotels.com seems to be more expensive, I gather this is to cover the cost of the Hotels.com Rewards (10% of your spend back, i.e. one free night for every ten).
  – Some hotels on booking.com include things like the “resort fee” or “property service charge” (some US hotels), while the same stay on hotels.com doesn’t. For example, a recent booking on booking.com was £1325 including the fee, and hotels.com was £1,682 PLUS the resort fee of £225!
  – booking.com also has up to 15% off a stay when booked through their app, not the website.

  I had a hotel in New York booked via booking.com. and had to have it cancelled because of Coronavirus. They refunded it within 2 days.

• panka says:

  25 Jun25 June 11:20

  Got the credit, and used it for a booking, however, there’s one trick: credit is only applicable for pre-paid bookings. We booked on the day of travel, so it was not an issue, but this might be one if you want to cancel.

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