wonder why hotels haven't caught up with the airline industry in having a fairly realistic price listing on their own site? What do you mean? Most hotels nowad

wonder why hotels haven't caught up with the airline industry in having a fairly realistic price listing on their own site? What do you mean? Most hotels nowadays give you exactly the same price on their site as you'd get from orbitz/expedia/hipmunk. If you mean a price list rather than a get-a-quote-for-a-particular-day, then that's not in their interests (they don't really want you to know how much they're gouging you on busy nights), but it's been a fair while since I stayed in a hotel which didn't have a price search thing on their site. Priceline and hotwire are, of course, always cheaper than getting a named hotel, if you're clever about it. I have to say, though, if hotel search is the real cash cow (as I suspect it is) then I think hipmunk should spend some more time working on it. Their interface for flight search is the greatest, and I use it all the time. But the hotel search I find to be confusing and clunky so I rarely use it.