ENGINE VS. CLC LODGING SOLUTIONS:
FULL TRAVEL, ONE BILL
Hotels, flights, and cars on one platform vs. a lodging-only program
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| What’s included | CLC Lodging Solutions | Engine |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | CLC Lodging Solutions does not publicly disclose its per-room-night transaction fee. Contact CLC Lodging Solutions sales for a quote. | Engine charges no platform fee and no booking fee. There are no contracts and no membership fee. |
| Invoicing | CLC Lodging Solutions provides consolidated invoicing with a pre-delivery audit at in-network hotels. | Engine pays the hotels; you get one consolidated invoice billed after stays, covering every booking on the platform. |
| Cancellation flexibility | CLC Lodging Solutions includes same-day and previous-day cancellation at its approximately 46,000 in-network hotels. | FlexPro (paid add-on) covers cancellations and modifications at 1M+ hotels, including non-refundable rates, until noon on check-in day, with a full refund as a travel credit valid for one year. |
| Cost tracking | CLC Lodging Solutions does not document project-code or job-code tagging in its publicly available materials. | Custom Fields let teams tag every booking by project, job code, or cost center at the time of booking, feeding into unified reporting. |
| Hotels | CLC Lodging Solutions has a pre-negotiated core network of approximately 46,000 hotels with a Best Price Guarantee; expanded to 2M total hotels through a January 2026 open-market platform. | Engine lists 1M+ hotels worldwide with 12.5% average hotel savings, up to 70% in select cases, and no booking fees at any property. |
| Flights and cars | CLC Lodging Solutions does not offer flight or rental car booking. | Engine books hundreds of airlines (GDS + NDC) and 40+ rental car brands from the same dashboard as hotels. |
| Group bookings | CLC Lodging Solutions supports group reservations within its lodging program. | Engine provides dedicated trip managers for room blocks of 9+ rooms, with the fastest group RFP response time in the market. |
| Setup | CLC Lodging Solutions does not publicly document its implementation or onboarding timeline. | Engine supports same-day basic booking with no IT integration required to get started. |
| Support | CLC Lodging Solutions does not publicly document its support model or hours. | Every interaction goes straight to a US-based live agent, available 24/7 for booking and trip support. |
HOW WE MAKE BUSINESS TRAVEL EASY
Flexibility guaranteed
Modify or cancel any reservation and get a refund when you book with FlexPro, a paid add-on
Consolidated invoices
Eliminate individual receipts and reimbursement cycles with DirectBill
Inventory & savings
Save an average of 12.5% with exclusive rates at over 1M hotels
Real-time visibility
Track travel activity & spend patterns across the entire organization
Double up on rewards
Import loyalty numbers to stack Engine + hotel rewards
Travel policy enforcement
Your custom policy is enforced at the time of booking
ENGINE ISN’T RIGHT FOR EVERY TEAM.
NEITHER IS CLC LODGING SOLUTIONS. HERE’S THE HONEST DIFFERENCE.
Choose Engine if …
- You need hotels, flights, and rental cars managed on one platform with a single consolidated invoice.
- You book hotels across locations that fall outside any pre-negotiated network and need cancellation flexibility that works at every property.
- You want to track travel spend by project, job code, or cost center at the point of booking without manual reconciliation.
- You need a same-day setup with no contracts, no membership fees, and no booking fees.
- You want a proprietary rewards program that earns points on every booking, stacked on top of hotel loyalty pass-through.
Choose CLC Lodging Solutions if …
- Your travel is almost entirely lodging, and CLC Lodging Solutions’ pre-negotiated network of approximately 46,000 hotels covers the majority of your routes.
- Your team books the same in-network properties repeatedly, and CLC’s rates at those hotels typically match or beat what you’d find elsewhere.
- You need a per-diem virtual card with employer-set spending limits, date-range controls, and automatic recapture of unused funds, which CLC Lodging Solutions’ Trip Card provides.
- Your workforce needs fully furnished corporate apartments for extended stays of 90 days or more, a dedicated placement service that CLC Lodging Solutions offers through its Corporate Housing program.
- Your finance team requires invoices to be audited before delivery, a step built into CLC Lodging Solutions’ invoicing process that Engine does not replicate.
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BUILT FOR THE WAY REAL TEAMS TRAVEL
Transportation
CLC Lodging Solutions’ pre-negotiated network concentrates rate depth at approximately 46,000 hotels, leaving crews without consistent coverage when routes shift to locations outside that set.
Engine’s open-market platform covers 1M+ hotels, and Custom Fields let dispatch and ops teams tag every stay by route, project, or cost center for clean consolidated invoicing.
Retail services
Lodging-only programs require separate tools for flights and cars, creating split invoices and no unified view of total travel spend across client engagements.
Engine books hotels, flights, and rental cars from one dashboard, with Direct Bill consolidating all travel into one consolidated invoice billed after stays are complete.
Energy
Lodging-only programs create fragmented invoicing across facilities, and without direct billing, traveling crews have to put hotel stays on personal cards and wait for reimbursement.
Direct Bill eliminates personal card use for traveling crews and consolidates all hotel stays into one invoice billed after stays are complete, making cost reconciliation straightforward across facilities.
“ENGINE’S SETUP TOOK DAYS, NOT WEEKS,
AND NOW OUR AP TEAM CAN APPLY CHARGES DIRECTLY TO JOB COSTS.”
Frequently asked questions
CLC Lodging Solutions does not offer flight or rental car booking. Companies using CLC Lodging Solutions for hotels still need separate tools for air and ground transportation, which means separate invoices and no unified view of total travel spend. Engine books hotels, flights, and rental cars from one dashboard with a single consolidated invoice.
CLC Lodging Solutions includes same-day and previous-day cancellation at its approximately 46,000 in-network hotels. Engine’s FlexPro covers cancellations and modifications at 1M+ hotels, including non-refundable rates, until noon on check-in day. Travelers receive a full refund as a travel credit valid for one year. For any bookings outside CLC Lodging Solutions’ core network, FlexPro is the only option that applies.
Engine charges no platform fee and no booking fee, with no contracts. CLC Lodging Solutions does not publicly disclose its per-room-night transaction fee. Contact CLC Lodging Solutions sales for a quote.
Engine supports same-day basic booking with no IT integration required. CLC Lodging Solutions does not publicly document its implementation or onboarding timeline.
CLC Lodging Solutions’ pre-negotiated rates and invoicing apply at its core network of approximately 46,000 hotels. Engine’s Custom Fields let teams tag every booking by project code or cost center across all 1M+ hotels, feeding into a single consolidated invoice that covers the full picture regardless of location.
Engine Rewards earns points on every hotel booking, redeemable for travel credits with no restrictions, and travelers keep their hotel loyalty points on the same stay. Engine X adds up to 10% back on hotels and cars and 1.5% back on everything else. CLC Lodging Solutions supports hotel loyalty pass-through, where eligible, but does not offer a proprietary rewards program.
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