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Using the internet to find cheap deals

January 18th, 2009

How is it possible to find a cheaper deal on the hotel of your choice? Well the thing to realise is that the list price on the hotels website or when you ring them up is the default rate and they use it for everyone. They can do this as if you go to their website or ring them up you have probably already decided that you want to stay there. And so it is very unlikely that this is the cheapest hotel price that you can get.

The first step is to start checking out some of the common price comparison sites for hotels. Its not unusual to find as much as a 50% difference in price on different websites for the same hotel room on the same rates. When comparing prices its very important that you make sure you are comparing like for like in your requirements. Eg some price comparison sites do not include taxes and other extra expenses so it is important that you get full details of the booking.

Also when you are checking out comparison sites for cheap deals beware of hotels listed as “onrequest” as this means they do not actually have the hotel in their system and will have to contact the owner manually. As such this may mean any booking you make could fall though due to the hotel already being fully booked.

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