I am not a habitual resident of hotels like some people, so I am not an expert on how everything works. That being said, I know to keep checking my hotel price after booking as you can bag big price reductions.
The first time I experienced this was for a hotel in Berlin in 2018. Between booking and my stay, the price reduced no less than four times. Each time I rebooked the same room type, so in the end I saved almost half the original cost.
Hotel Price Check
Currently I have three hotel bookings live, one for later this week and two for next year. For the London hotel, when I booked back in August, the room price for three nights was €717. I’m staying in a few days time and this has reduced to €427, a saving of almost €300!
The same thing occurred with the hotel price for a stay in Honolulu. My booking for six nights was US$1,280 and when I looked again a few months later, the same room was pricing up at US$1,046. I’ll take a US$240 saving any day of the week.
Most of the time you just need to edit your booking, select the same dates, and it will update the rate. Sometimes you might need to finesse it a bit by choosing a different room type, then changing it back again to your original type, but it’s simple enough.
Overall Thoughts
When you could potentially save hundreds of dollars or Euro on the same room type, you would be mad not to take the time to check the prices after you book. As I have demonstrated, big savings can be made.
I am sure the hotels don’t love it, but I don’t care. If they’re going to amend the price, then those of us who are savvy will take full advantage of that to keep some money in our own pockets. Of course, another thing you can do is to upgrade to a better room for the price of your old room, so either way you win.
Have you seen your hotel room price change for the better before? What’s the best saving you’ve made? Thank you for reading and if you have any comments or queries, please leave them below.
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Thank you for the article! Really informative one, I enjoyed reading it 🙂
You’re welcome!
Have you heard of HotelSlash, a new service that automates the process of checking for lower prices on your hotel bookings? It’s still in the “Early Access” period, but you can check it out by entering the early access code ASEARLY.
An interesting concept all round 🙂 Thanks for the information.