Hotels – Obtain the very best price, then reduce it by over 10%
I love travelling, I love Hotels and I love paying as little as possible.
By using this method I’ve reduced the costs of my hotel bills AND had 8 free nights in the last couple of years.
It’s a bit fiddly and adds an extra 10 minutes to the process of booking a room but it works and sitting in a free hotel room makes it all worth it!
So here we go, step by step.
- Search for your hotel using Hotels.com
- Sign up for Hotel.com’s Reward Programme
- Pick, but DON’T book your hotel and obtain your price (let’s say it is £500 for a weeks stay)
- Now search for the same hotel on Trivago
- Is it cheaper?……. let’s say by using Trivago you find it for £450 on Booking.com (it must be the same room type, same dates, cancellation conditions etc)
- To keep a record of the price offered take a screenshot of the Booking.com details and save the webpage to your favourites.
- Sign up for a cash back site such as Top Cash Back or Quidco
- Search for Hotels.com on your chosen Cash Back site (Top Cash Back or Quidco) – they offer cashback usually between 2% and 8%)
- Go through to Hotels.com via the Cashback site and book your hotel
- Once confirmed contact Hotels.com to price match your Booking.com price. Their Price Match form can be found here.
- They should then refund you the difference between the amount you paid (£500) and the cheaper price you found through Trivago (£450) so a nice £50 refund.
So here’s the Maths!
We will presume you were going to pay the cheapest price possible which was £450 at Booking.com
Hotels.com will match this price so they will refund you £50
You will then receive let’s say 4% (of the £450) cashback from Top Cash Back or Quidco = £18
You will also receive a reward night from the Hotels.com reward programme for each 10 nights booked = an equivalent discount of 10% = £45
So overall you have an equivalent net cost of £450- £18 -£45 = £387
If you compare this to the original Hotels.com price of £500 it is an equivalent discount of £113 or 22%
Once you have signed up to the Hotels.com Reward Programme and the Cashback site the system becomes a lot easier. You can even book rooms for your family and friends, share the discounts, earn extra free nights and take them away with you!!
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