Ask HN: Hotel Booking Hacks?
Curious to know if anyone here uses any clever techniques to get the best/cheapest hotels possible. Is there anything better than just using Kayak?
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Step 1: Find a hotel or bed and breakfast with a horrible website.
Step 2: Offer SEO work, fixing typos, implement webervations or custom online reservation tool, general clean up in exchange for free nights.
I've found most proprietors of mom n pop hotels/bed breakfasts have no clue how to find a good designer/developer to help them with their site.
Step 2: Offer SEO work, fixing typos, implement webervations or custom online reservation tool, general clean up in exchange for free nights.
I've found most proprietors of mom n pop hotels/bed breakfasts have no clue how to find a good designer/developer to help them with their site.
priceline.com?
I got $120/night hotels for $40/night.
I got $120/night hotels for $40/night.
Yeah, priceline is high risk/reward. Sometimes you get an amazing deal, sometimes you get stuck in a place with bedbugs (I've been there). Although you can probably largely protect against this by only specifying hotels with 3+ stars.