I’m a travel expert and my simple email can get you a hotel upgrade

A TRAVEL expert has created an email template that can be used to bag a free hotel room upgrade.

Chelsea Dickenson has shared the template to help hotel guests try and blag a nicer hotel room without having to fork out for it.

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She created the basic template with the intention that guests can adapt it to fit the hotel they are going to and the people they are going with.

Chelsea focused her email on spending a night away with her boyfriend – but that can obviously be changed if you go with a friend or family member.

The email template reads:

“Hi there,

I hope you’re well.

After reading some amazing reviews, I’ve just booked a stay at your hotel for me and my boyfriend and we are both so excited! It looks great.

This will be our first getaway since the pandemic began and so would love to be considered for an upgrade to help us celebrate this small step towards normality if you have the availability.

Upgrade or not, we are really looking forward to staying with you.

All the best,

Chelsea.”

The travel expert shared some additional tips for people hoping to get upgraded for free, including addressing the email to the right person.

She said: “Find out the name of the person who makes the upgrade decisions.

“Often it will be the general manager so you could try calling up and asking for their name so that you can send it to the right person.”

Next, she recommended adding some humour to your email to make the person reading it smile and more likely to help you out.

She said: “I once got upgraded from writing an email very similar to the above for a trip to Brussels on the first day that the UK left the EU.

“We asked if they could help cheer us up and it worked!”

Chelsea also advised people to check the hotel’s availability before sending the email so you can get the tone right.

She said: “If [the hotel] is fully booked up, you may want to refer to possible ‘last minute availability’ and if there’s plenty of rooms then you know you can be a bit more general.”

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