Hotels and car bookings that will move to Sabre
Hey GDSers. I was thinking that maybe it's better to book hotels that are for April or later direct with the hotel chain since after the bookings are moved over we cannot cancel or change in Sabre. Some hotels will not make changes for us as they usually say we have to make the change in the GDS. Seems like a big 'ol headache to have to deal with that. Cars may not be such an issue because changes to cars usually will revert to a new rate anyway and there aren't penalties for not cancelling most car bookings, though as a courtesy of course we want to. But if they give us the runaround we can just not cancel the reservation. Though just thought of one snafu- say Hertz is booked and client wants to change. Hertz won't change it since it is a GDS booking. If we book another and it's the same pick up date, they will have a double booking and that will be a problem.
Any other thoughts about the car/hotel dilemma?
I think after we complete training. Another agent who completed training early is booking them in Sabre now