Cheapest Hotel Rooms.

kmhtkmhtkmht

What is the best method on gauging Hotel Room availability and prices? Any sites listing a nice matrix of all of them - travelling to New York soon and I am not wanting to pay rack rates... all the basic websites (expedia, opodo) haven't offered me anything mind blowing price wise... Ideas?

redux

approach the hotel direct, thus saving them referral commission?

gijsanne

Try https://www.hotwire.com

Ian_W

Have you tried http://www.hotelscomparison.com/.

Checks all the agencies websites like alparooms, hotel pronto, holiday inns etc and has certainly come up with the goods for me a few times. Sometimes a good idea to use it a couple of times because if it can't get through to a site it won't display their prices.

kmhtkmhtkmht

Hotwire.com shows the best price but doesn't tell you what hotel you are staying in! They list a number of name brands but guarantee you nothing other than "Hotwire works with major hotel brands that you know and trust to offer incredible deals. And because we work with our hotel suppliers to negotiate their special rates, we guarantee that they're the lowest prices you'll find." This seems to be the old bait and switch tactic but what are your thoughts!

My initial desire was to stay at the Mandarin Oriental and as good as my negotiating skills are, they are not budging 1 cent from the $679.00 rate - and I am not certainly not paying that, I'd rather spend the money and go buy some shoes!

blindman

Try Priceline.

Similar to Hotwire but usually cheaper.

Look at Betterbidding and Bidding for travel for likely hotels and bids.

You won't get the Mandarin Oriental but you can save $$$$$$$$$

When are you going and how many?

kmhtkmhtkmht

Roughly for 3 nights from the 24th...

Steve_xx

I went to New York in October last.

I booked the room via Expedia. However, I cancelled it once over because I noticed that the price had dropped. I paid, I think £387 for seven nights B+B for two of us. I saved £90 by cancelling and then rebooking.

We stayed at the Ramada Plaza Hotel, close to LaGuardia airport and The Ramada provides a free shuttle to and from the airport, you just call from a freephone in the airport concourse. The hotel was fine and it did include breakfast, which was nothing to wrtie home about. This hotel is within 5 minutes walk, or 5 blocks, of the subway into Manhattan, trains are frequent and run 24 hours. It takes 25 minutes to get to Manhattan and you can buy a weekly bus/subway ticket for £13 approximately.

Rooms in New York are very expensive, and they seldom seem to come with breakfast. I'd say that room in NY are the most expensive I've ever come across.

Next time, now that I'm familiar with the territory, I'll try and get somewhere in Manhatten. But it wouldn't bother me if I had to stop at the Ramada Plaza again. Though I would have been a tad upset if I had paid the £1500 tariff that it would have cost to stay there had I waited until a week before we went before I booked it!

blindman

Steve_xx wrote:

I went to New York in October last.

I booked the room via Expedia. However, I cancelled it once over because I noticed that the price had dropped. I paid, I think £387 for seven nights B+B for two of us. I saved £90 by cancelling and then rebooking.

We stayed at the Ramada Plaza Hotel, close to LaGuardia airport and The Ramada provides a free shuttle to and from the airport, you just call from a freephone in the airport concourse. The hotel was fine and it did include breakfast, which was nothing to wrtie home about. This hotel is within 5 minutes walk, or 5 blocks, of the subway into Manhattan, trains are frequent and run 24 hours. It takes 25 minutes to get to Manhattan and you can buy a weekly bus/subway ticket for £13 approximately.

Rooms in New York are very expensive, and they seldom seem to come with breakfast. I'd say that room in NY are the most expensive I've ever come across.

Next time, now that I'm familiar with the territory, I'll try and get somewhere in Manhatten. But it wouldn't bother me if I had to stop at the Ramada Plaza again. Though I would have been a tad upset if I had paid the £1500 tariff that it would have cost to stay there had I waited until a week before we went before I booked it!

Ramada Priceline bid $70 per night including all taxes:eek:
So less than £300 for the 7 days (but you have to buy breakfast:rolleyes:)

If you stay in NY use Priceline

blindman

kmhtkmhtkmht wrote:

Roughly for 3 nights from the 24th...

24th of March?

and how many in your party....

Steve_xx

blindman wrote:

Ramada Priceline bid $70 per night including all taxes:eek:
So less than £300 for the 7 days (but you have to buy breakfast:rolleyes:)

If you stay in NY use Priceline

Looked at Priceline as advised for 24th - 30th March. Price is $149 per night at Ramada Plaza?