However, HotelTonight offered a better price for the same hotel and perhaps this is the discount up

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HotelTonight holiday inn sunspree montego bay jamaica is an hotel booking app, designed for same-day bookings and promises savings up to 70 percent off. I don t know about the biggest innovation but I was curious holiday inn sunspree montego bay jamaica whether it is the best app to use for last minute (literally) hotel booking.
So I have compared HotelTonight with the Expedia and Priceline apps and roomkey.com ( Founded by a group of leading hotel companies, Room Key's mission is simple: offer travelers direct access to a broad network of hotels around the globe, .. ) . Roomkey is an interesting concept, and I will write about it in a future post. They don t have an app yet (how difficult would it be? they seem to have the resources) but they have poetry.
But I have started to digress, let's go back to the price comparison. I searched for a room in downtown Vancouver, and no other criteria has been used (stars, ratings, etc., I suppose when one has to book last-minute, any hotel to a certain degree would do). And without further ado: only once did HotelTonight offer the best price, and there was a tie between Priceline holiday inn sunspree montego bay jamaica and Roomkey (5 days each with the best price) .
However, HotelTonight offered a better price for the same hotel and perhaps this is the discount up to 70% they promise. I assume when HotelTonight makes a deal with a hotel they (i.e. the hotels) have to offer them the best price and by a quite sizeable margin.
"In the seven instances holiday inn sunspree montego bay jamaica HotelTonight competed with Expedia, it beat Expedia six times and tied once. In the eight times HotelTonight competed with the hotels' own websites, it beat them seven times and lost once ..", from an ABC News page ' Using HotelTonight For a Hotel Tonight '.
So I fail to see what's so revolutionary about this app. And how many people book on the same day they need a hotel room? The only firsthand case I know is of my work colleagues who got their flights cancelled because of bad weather and they had to find a hotel room; they would have cared less about the price as they were going to be reimbursed anyway.
However, who am I to say this? Hotel Tonight is backed by top investors (Battery Ventures, Accel Partners and First Round Capital). Everyone who works there, even if they have not slept and eaten for 3 days, is still 10 times smarter than me (100 times under the same circumstances). Accel for example invested in Facebook, made lots of money with the IPO, and what about me, I lost money as I bought the IPO.
Exactly this. Theoretically, HT should compete on price (mapping their ratings to comparable star ratings) with hotwire/priceline opaque holiday inn sunspree montego bay jamaica bookings made within 3 or so days of arrival, with the obvious holiday inn sunspree montego bay jamaica advantage of knowing the hotel. HT might even win (vs. a hotwire/priceline booking that turns out to be the same hotel).
So, comparing the cheapest hotel available on HT with the cheapest on hotwire/priceline/etc holiday inn sunspree montego bay jamaica isn t particularly useful if HT is ever cheapest overall, that s accidental and particularly fortunate for them. But they should always offer a decent discount on the hotels they list, with some variance for room availability.
There s clearly a market for HT people who refuse to use hotwire et al unless they can deduce the hidden hotel before booking and that aren t bound to loyalty programs. Even the latter category has a price delta at which it often ceases to matter.
A comparison of HT rates against reported successful priceline bids and hotwire bookings for the same hotel in similar demand periods would be interesting. Similarly, a same-hotel comparison against various publicly-available discounted rates on hotel chain websites would be quite revealing.
Normally, I wouldn t think this happens a lot, but next week I m driving cross country and will need to find a hotel wherever we are when we get tired of driving. I was considering downloading and using this app for this reason, but based on your review I m questioning whether holiday inn sunspree montego bay jamaica it s worth it.
Tracy, actually you should download holiday inn sunspree montego bay jamaica it, it is free after all. Who knows, perhaps the respective day they have the best deal (very unlikely, but they might). It wouldn't take too much time to use it and actually first time I think they give a $25 credit, not so sure though.
Dear Cynical Traveler: This is Jared Simon, COO of HotelTonight.  Where s the fun (or innovation) in forcing our customers to dig through a long list of hotels every day to find the one they want for that night? holiday inn sunspree montego bay jamaica  We think that s a real pain, so we work hard to curate our hotels, removing those that have poor reviews or which are in sketchy locations, so that it s easy for our customers to find an amazing hotel very quickly.  As a result, the grungiest (and often cheapest) hotels won t be on our app.  However, as Nik notes above, for those hotels that make the grade, the best rate can always holiday inn sunspree montego bay jamaica be found on HotelTonight and our customers can trust that they ll have a great experience.  Now that s innovative!