Wow, Tune Hotel is offering rooms from RM1.00 per night for their budget hotels in Kuala Lumpur and Kota Kinabalu. Now with the budget hotels coming into play after, this will certainly give a run to all those luxury hotels and also other budget hotels around. Also, there will be new Tune Hotels opening in Penang, LCCT Sepang and Kuching. Talking about market penetration and aggresive marketing.

 Booking is quite straight forward and easy, just like the similar interface we have seen on AirAsia website. Well, if you have not used before, just focus on the “Book Now” section. You will need to key in details like City, Arrival Date, Number of Nights, Number of Rooms and then click “GO“. If you had signed up before as a member, you can click on the second “GO” button, else click on the first one.

Once completed, you will go to the next page which request you to choose the type of room based on the availability.

Since this is no frills budget hotel, hotel rooms typically come with bare essential items. You will need to purchase additional add ons for your convenience like air conditioning, wireless internet access etc. Hey, after all, it’s already budget lioa, right?

I did not select any add on so I thought I would need to pay only RM2, correct? Wrong!! The actual amount I need to pay is RM23.12. Huh, how come it’s soooo much difference compared to RM2 as mentioned earlier? Something wrong with the system ar?? How come like that one??? 

Again, if you have travelled via Air Asia before, you’ll know the the price itself referred to the room without additional compulsory “add on“. Which means you need to bear in mind RM2 is only the promotional price which did not include the administration fee that can be many times higher than the the promotional fees as in my case the admin fee was RM19.81.

Now, that is not the end of the story yet. If you choose to pay by credit card, there may be a fee involved. Don’t say that you have not been warned.

Luckily, for now, no fee surchage is imposed if you decide to pay by credit card. But if they can come with a small statement like that, it’s only a matter of time before they start charging you.

No frills budget hotel or airlines have their advantages as they provide only what you need but at the most bare essential. If you ever need additional things, you’ll need to pay for it. That is okay as this is what you suppose to do.. pay per what you use. 

But what is deceiving is the promotional price that being highlighted many times and purposely where as it is NOT the the actual final price. I would personally prefer that these budget hotels put their final price as RM23.12 (inclusive tax + surchage) so that I know what i’m paying for than to falsely claim the room price is only RM2. Call it marketing tactic but I call it cheating!