The Hotels.com Club Sandwich Index (CSI) helps travellers budget
TORONTO, May 9, 2012 /CNW/ - The club sandwich is a classic. It's one of those comfort items on menus across the world that no matter where you are, it can make you feel at home. But this popular sandwich, like all food, can vary when it comes to price. Hotels.com® knows the cost of eating can have a big impact on your travel budget and where you decide to go. So using the club sandwich as a benchmark for food costs, the travel experts put together a list of sandwich prices in Canadians' favourite travel destinations as revealed by the Hotel Price Index™ (HPI™).
The classic chicken, bacon, egg, lettuce and mayo sandwich, a standard lunch available in hotels worldwide, was used as a universal measure of affordability in the Hotels.com Club Sandwich Index (CSI). The CSI average price has been calculated by taking the real prices paid by guests for a club sandwich in approximately 30 hotels in the capital city of each country measured. In total Hotels.com surveyed the club sandwich prices in more than 750 hotels in the five, four and three-star categories across 26 countries, with five Canadian cities measured.
"The CSI is a quirky way for travellers to estimate the cost of living in the cities they are visiting for their vacations," said Taylor L. Cole, director public relations and social media, North America at Hotels.com. "Hotels.com customers already know how to snag great hotel deals. The CSI is a fun metric which provides an average cost travellers can use to estimate lunch budgets for daily expenses away from home."
Top domestic destinations
Interested in knowing how the other markets in Canada stacked up? Club sandwiches in the city of Calgary came in at a reasonable $13.29CDN, and the east coast city of Halifax offers great value at $12.53CDN.
Top international destinations
Top international destinations outside of North America
To help hotel guests and Hotels.com users learn how to prepare the perfect club sandwich on their own, John Torode, chef, restaurateur and TV presenter, shares his club sandwich recipe in this video for a lunch that tastes just right.
Whoever thought a Club Sandwich couldn't dictate travel plans was sadly mistaken. Hotels.com wants to help travellers make informed decisions, whether it's providing food costs or hotel guest reviews to help find the perfect destination and accommodation.
Editors Notes:
The Club Sandwich Index 'average Club Sandwich price' has been worked out as the average price of approximately 30 Club Sandwiches as sold in 30 hotels in the capital city of each country measured. The prices were taken from 10 five-star, 10 four-star, and 10 three-star hotels from each city where applicable. In some instances 4.5 star hotels were used. In total more than 750 prices of a Club Sandwich were measured across more than 750 hotels, in 26 countries. Currency was converted to CDN, exchange rate correct as of May 3, 2012.
About the HPI™
The HPI tracks the real prices paid per room by Hotels.com customers around the world using a weighted average based on the number of rooms sold in each of the markets that Hotels.com operates. The index started in 2004, and includes all bookings across the almost 142,000 properties in over 60 countries that make up the sample set of hotels from which prices are taken.
About Hotels.com®
Hotels.com (also known in Canada as Hotels.ca) is a leading online accommodation booking website with more than 150,000 properties around the world, ranging from international chains and all-inclusive resorts to local favourites and bed & breakfasts, together with all the information needed to book the perfect stay. Hotels.com benefits from one of the largest hotel contracting teams in the industry, negotiating the best rates for its customers, and offers frequent sales, special deals and promotions. There are more than 6.5 million guest reviews on the site from users who have actually stayed in the hotels to ensure customers can make an informed choice when booking. Through its industry-leading loyalty program Welcome Rewards™, customers can earn a free night for every 10 nights stayed at more than 65,000 hotels. Under its Price Match Guarantee, if a customer can find the same deal for less on a prepaid hotel, hotels.com will refund the difference. Travellers can book online or by contacting one of the multilingual call centres. Special apps for mobile phones and tablets can also be downloaded at www.hotels.com/deals/mobile_app/ enabling customers to book on the go with access to 20,000 last minute deals. Hotels.com publishes an award-winning twice-yearly review of international hotel room price trends called the Hotels.com Hotel Price Index™, which is now produced in 31 individual country editions, with North American data available at www.hotel-price-index.com. Follow Hotels.com on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/hotelsdotcomca, on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/hotelsdotcomca and on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/hotelsdotcom. Hotels.com is part of Expedia Inc., the largest online travel company in the world with an extensive portfolio that includes some of the world's best-known brands.
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