> Sometimes, they also offer the cheapest price but usually it is just as cheap to call the hotel itself Apparently, hotels that use booking.com as a sales cha

> Sometimes, they also offer the cheapest price but usually it is just as cheap to call the hotel itself Apparently, hotels that use booking.com as a sales channel sign a contract that prevents them from charging less for the same rooms on other sales channels. In Germany and France this practice has been banned. (In Germany by a judgement of the Bundeskartellamt and the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf)