Using Trivago

carina16a

I have used Trivago to find a hotel in Californis for a 2 night stay. It comes back with a deal at £111. I then hit the 'Show Deal' button and it takes me to the hotel's site where the deal is now £245, plus tax. Why the enormous difference? What am I missing here?
There is no apparent help page on Trivago, so I really don't know what is going on.
Can anyone give me a simple and acceptable explanation?

SW17

Sometimes the prices on the search result page are for 1 night, and sometimes when you click through the currency changes to local, depending on the site. Which city and hotel?

carina16a

Lemon Tree in Santa Barbara. Yes, I allowed for currency changes and even 1 night against the two requested. I also see the same effect with other hotels and locations. It really seems that Trivago's figures really don't match the hotel site, so what is the real story?

duchy

Probably worth running it through Kayak -I find it tends to generally be better than trivago

SW17

carina16a wrote: »

Lemon Tree in Santa Barbara. Yes, I allowed for currency changes and even 1 night against the two requested. I also see the same effect with other hotels and locations. It really seems that Trivago's figures really don't match the hotel site, so what is the real story?

Had a quick look and wasn't able to find dates where the hotel's own website was showing as a deal, so can't be sure. The deals offered by Booking.com and Expedia seemed to more or less match when clicked through to. Possible that the rates varied per night and the search result showed a one night price for the cheapest night (as opposed to an average), but that is speculation on my part.

paddyrg

Trivago doesn't (usually) scrape prices from hotels, but from aggregators. It means it's a little more removed from any fluctuations

Archergirl

I think SB is quite an expensive place to stay, have you checked b&b at all?