Several hotel chains such as Marriott Residence Inn (marriott.com/residence-inn) and Hampton Inn (hamptoninn.hilton.com) offer overnight guests a full complimentary breakfast bar to enjoy with hot and cold breakfast items. This saves the guest the money that may otherwise be spent on a purchased restaurant breakfast and tip.
Several restaurants and hotels now offer free wireless Internet service to the customers and guests who patronize them. Travelers can budget and extend the minutes of their own mobile personal subscription Internet service by linking into the free service while dining or staying. The Super 8 (super8.com) hotel brand was one of the first hotel chains to offer Wi-Fi for free to their guests. Dunkin Donuts (dunkindonuts.com) provides small, reservable meeting rooms to draw patrons who would otherwise rent a more expensive meeting facility with Internet media capabilities.
Free airport transportation, via car, shuttle or bus, is a great incentive used by hotel companies to lure budget-minded travelers to take advantage of their hotel property. Taxi cab rides in metropolitan areas between airport and local hotels can cost high premium so business or leisure travelers can save by booking with a hotel which offers the free transportation service. Some hotels meet the inbound guest at the airport with cars, such as Four Seasons hotels (fourseasons.com), while others run their shuttles on a schedule, as Holiday Inn hotels (holidayinn.com) do, with regular stops at airport Baggage levels and Ticketing levels.
Families traveling on a budget should look for accommodations and dining which offer discounted children's menus or those with promotional offers which allow children under a certain age to dine or stay for free at the specific establishment. Embassy Suites (embassysuites.hilton.com) hotels allow children 18 and under to stay free with registered adults thereby alleviating any extra occupancy charges. International House of Pancakes (ihop.com) saves traveling parents money in 2011 by offering children 12 and under one free kid's meal with each adult entree meal purchased daily between the hours of 4 and 10 p.m.
