Penn State has hotel agreements with the following:
Club Quarters: Club Quarters is a hotel chain that offers corporate discounts to memebers. Penn State is a corporate member of Club Quarters. They are located in select cities and offer both week day and weekend rates that are greatly reduced. These rates are available for both business and leisure travel. Club Quarters also offers group rates and meeting space.
PSU-Hotels.com: PSU-Hotels.com is a search engine used to look for thousands of hotels all over the world. The Web sit powered by the familiar Hotels.com. With PSU-Hotels.com, travelers can book hotel rooms at competitive prices ans still have the flexibility of cancelling or changing the reservations, which cannot be done at many hotel sites. These rates are also available for both business and leisure travel.
Starwood Hotels: Starwood Hotels has a new hotel program that offers Penn State employees a 15% discount on Starwood's lowest available room rates at all Starwood family brands. These rates are available for both business and leisure travel.
The Penn Stater: The Penn Stater offers the following current rates: $79.00 for Single occupancy and $89 for Double Occupancy.
The Nittany Lion Inn: The Nittany Lion Inn offers the following current rates: $79 for Single Occupancy and $109 for Double Occupancy.
There are also less significant reduced pricing at various hotels adjacent to Penn State's various campuses. That hotel listing can be found on the Travel Services Web site at www.travel.psu.edu. Go to "hotels" in the left menu, then click on Penn State Campuses.
Travel Perferences and Frequent Guest Memberships
Like airlines, hotels offer frequent quest memberships to create customer loyalty. Each time a guest stays in the hotel chain, they earn points which can be used for merchandise or free hotels stays.
Penn State permits emplyees to retain these points earned for either business or leisure travel. However, just like choosing an airline, a traveler's choice of hotels should not be influenced by their memberships, especially if it increases the cost of business travel to the University, wither in the hotel expense, or the ground transportation to get to and from the hotel to the business site.
