Ask HN: Hotel Booking Hacks?

Posted by jack7890 on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @01:20PM
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Curious to know if anyone here uses any clever techniques to get the best/cheapest hotels possible. Is there anything better than just using Kayak?

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Re:Ask HN: Hotel Booking Hacks? by KClough on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @10:25AM (#813161)

Step 1: Find a hotel or bed and breakfast with a horrible website.

Step 2: Offer SEO work, fixing typos, implement webervations or custom online reservation tool, general clean up in exchange for free nights.

I've found most proprietors of mom n pop hotels/bed breakfasts have no clue how to find a good designer/developer to help them with their site.

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Re:Ask HN: Hotel Booking Hacks? by rms on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @04:16PM (#811836)

http://airbnb.com ?

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Re:Ask HN: Hotel Booking Hacks? by rick888 on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @03:10PM (#811658)

priceline.com?

I got $120/night hotels for $40/night.

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Re:Ask HN: Hotel Booking Hacks? by jack7890 on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @03:25PM (#811701)

Yeah, priceline is high risk/reward. Sometimes you get an amazing deal, sometimes you get stuck in a place with bedbugs (I've been there). Although you can probably largely protect against this by only specifying hotels with 3+ stars.

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