Booking when "1 room left"

Looter

My wife and I have just booked a holiday via Thomas Cook, we knew which hotel we wanted to stay at and when we saw it on the Thomas Cook website it showed that just 1 room was remaining for the week we could go away, so we thought we had better book it straight away.

Just had a look now and it's still saying there's 1 room available! Are they just saying this to pressurize people into booking? If so I think this is wrong.

BOBS

Try doing a dummy booking without going right through procedure - maybe the front screen hasnt refreshed

dzug1

It can mean they have one room allocated for immediate sale without having to check back with the hotel. Having sold it they ask the hotel to allocate another room to offer - which may be at the same price, maybe not.


So not necessarily nefarious

Neil49

Very much like airlines where they say only 2 seats remaining 'at this price'.

Go back later on and if they have sold then the price may only have gone up by less than £1

jonesMUFCforever

I agree IMO it is a marketing ploy more often than not - especially if you let them put cookies on your computer - so they know which hotels you have been looking at.

Looter

jonesMUFCforever wrote: »

I agree IMO it is a marketing ploy more often than not - especially if you let them put cookies on your computer - so they know which hotels you have been looking at.

This is probably what happened, we stayed at the same hotel last year so we've been checking the price daily for the last 3 months, it was £600 one day and always above £500 but it was £480 today so we decided to book.

stephb34

Looter wrote: »

My wife and I have just booked a holiday via Thomas Cook, we knew which hotel we wanted to stay at and when we saw it on the Thomas Cook website it showed that just 1 room was remaining for the week we could go away, so we thought we had better book it straight away.

Just had a look now and it's still saying there's 1 room available! Are they just saying this to pressurize people into booking? If so I think this is wrong.

Usually its true there is only 1 left, unless they've changed things recently. The website is slower at updating but I think if you had tried to book it you wouldn't be able to.

discat11

Unless the hotel offer all their rooms though a particular website/operator then it may well be the merry go round of rooms available/non available as the allocation gets spread about & moved around.

Almost impossible to pin down any argument that it's potentially misleading you on the room availability to try to pressure a sale I would have thought?