One Month, 500 Members, Five Winners

When BookingClub opened in July, we hoped we'd reach 500 members by Christmas. We got there in a month!

We're past 600 now and growing every day. Membership starts free, and at the time, the first paid month was free too. But the biggest reason is also the best one: members telling their mates. Thank you!

The 500 Members Milestone Giveaway

We said we'd celebrate properly when the club hit 500, and on Tuesday 18 August at 5:00pm we did: five winners drawn, each scoring a $100 BookingClub hotel credit.

Every member was in automatically. If your membership was active at the draw, you were in, and Club Pass and Club Pass+ members earned extra entries.

Congratulations to our five winners. Your credits are already on your accounts, ready to come off your next hotel booking automatically. See the winners on the giveaway page.

Bali is next

The next one's bigger. One member and their plus-one will win a trip to Bali for two: return flights from your nearest Australian capital, five nights at a 4 or 5 star hotel, private transfers, and $1,000 spending money. Drawn 1 September.

Club Pass and Club Pass+ members are in automatically, and every month of membership adds another entry. If you are on the free Tourist tier, Club Pass is $9.90 a month and puts you in every member draw.

Good luck for 1 September!

How BookingClub works

Every hotel on BookingClub shows up to three member prices for the same room. Here is a real two-night stay from the club this week:

The gap comes from a piece of industry plumbing called a Closed User Group. Hotels guard the price the public sees: it sits on the big booking platforms, on Google and on their own site, hemmed in by rate-parity agreements. Behind a login, to a defined group of members, they are allowed to release quieter, lower rates without ever touching that public number. The login is not a gate for the sake of it; it is what makes the lower rate contractually allowed to exist. If you want the full story, we wrote about it in Why the Best Hotel Rates Are Hidden.

The deeper your tier, the deeper the rate. Tourist members get member pricing for free, Club Pass cuts further, and Club Pass+ gets our sharpest price on every booking.