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> Simply compare prices, and if you find it cheaper on a website, ask the hotel to give you 5% off. I did. The staff told me they sold a number of rooms well
by irahul 14y ago
> Simply compare prices, and if you find it cheaper on a website, ask the hotel to give you 5% off.
I did. The staff told me they sold a number of rooms well in advance, and the travel site does the pricing with a guaranteed return to the hotel. To the hotel, it doesn't matter how much they are selling it for, but they can do only what is listed on the site.
Also, many 3 star rated hotels don't have online reservations.
- lotsofpulp 14y agoI should have noted that my experience is with Hilton/IHG/other American/British hotels. I don't have much experience with international hotels in other countries though. But I do know that it is not typical for hotels to sell rooms to Expedia/Travelocity/Hotels.com/Orbitz/Priceline. They may have a special arrangement, but I doubt it. Basically, the hotel manager can decide to make rooms available to those travel agents, and then they are displayed on Expedia's website. If someone buys it via Expedia, then Expedia sends over a reservation to the hotel's Central Reservation System with just the guest's name, and Expedia's card, and the system is instructed to NOT print receipts or room rates for the guest, so that they do not find out what Expedia is paying the hotel. What you were told may be true, but I bet it was just a desk clerk that didn't know any better.