Hotel chain
Best Western rates & Best Western Rewards points API
Best Western Rewards public and member rates and award points, read anonymously from the chain's booking flow — a chain no other self-serve API covers.
- Public rate
- ✓
- Member rate
- ✓
- Award points
- ✓
- Native calendar
- ✓
- Comp set batch
- ✓
- Credits per shop
- 5
- Comp set, per hotel
- 0.5
- Calendar, per night
- 0.1
- ·A shop is a catalogue call plus one call per rate plan (~21 upstream calls), which is why it weighs 5 credits.
- ·Award points come through the shop without a login.
- ·The calendar is synthesised from 365-night rate-plan spans; a sold-out night inside a span is bisected.
curl -s https://api.directrate.dev/v1/shop \
-H "x-api-key: $DIRECTRATE_API_KEY" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"chain":"bestwestern","hotel_code":"<hotel_code>","checkin":"2026-11-10","los":1}'Find a Best Western code first: GET /v1/hotels?chain=bestwestern&q=<city> (1 credit, 5 on Best Western).
curl -s "https://api.directrate.dev/v1/hotels?chain=bestwestern&q=Chicago,%20IL&radius=5" \
-H "x-api-key: $DIRECTRATE_API_KEY"{
"chain": "bestwestern",
"hotel": {
"code": "<hotel_code>",
"name": "…",
"currency": "USD"
},
"checkin": "2026-11-10",
"los": 1,
"status": "available",
"rates": [
{
"room_name": "…",
"rate_name": "…",
"rate_type": "bar",
"member_only": false,
"price_per_night": 0,
"price_per_night_after_tax": 0,
"tax_included": true,
"currency": "USD",
"points_per_night": null
}
],
"lowest": {
"bar": 0,
"member": 0,
"bar_after_tax": 0,
"member_after_tax": 0
},
"shopped_at": "…",
"source": "live",
"cache_age_sec": 0
}ShopResponse — the full schema is in the API reference.
No snapshot response is shown for Best Western on this page; the shape above is the contract every chain answers in. Run it live with a free key.
FAQ
Best Western questions
Do I need a Best Western Rewards account?
No. The member rate is what Best Western quotes an anonymous visitor who is not logged in; it comes back as its own rows with member_only: true and under lowest.member. Points come back the same way, without any login.
What does a Best Western shop cost?
5 credits live, a quarter of that from cache; errors and unknown codes are free. On the Free plan's 250 credits that is 50 shops a month; on Growth (15,000) 3,000. A /calendar night is 0.1 credit through Best Western's native calendar.
Where do I find Best Western hotel codes?
GET /hotels?chain=bestwestern&q=<city or address> returns Best Western's own property codes around a place, nearest first. Codes are the chain's internal identifiers, not shared with any other chain.
All sources: coverage matrix · chains & coverage docs · weights.