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Let Your Hotel Foot the Bill

Some very smart hotel chains have figured out a way to attract guests by offering to alleviate their newfound checked baggage expenses. Show your first checked bag receipt when checking in at a Loews Hotels for up to $30 in dining credit at the property under their Baggage Buy Back campaign. Kor Hotel’s Los Angeles-area hotels will reimburse guests with up to $75 in hotel credit through their Money Bags promotion, while Kimpton Hotels' We Got Your Bag campaign gives guests who bunk down at one of the chain’s 43 boutique hotels throughout the US and Canada a room credit of up to $25 issued on the spot. Vail Resorts – a Colorado chain comprised of five Vail-area mountain properties – similarly just announced a Baggage Bailout special, which provides a $50 baggage credit for guests who book a four-night minimum stay. Just don’t forget to hang onto those checked baggage receipts as proof.

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