Hotel room pricing (Was: Re: Dorm room pricing?)

Reini Urban rurban at x-ray.at
Thu Apr 11 13:17:22 PDT 2013


Tobias,
$60 is a typical price at any of the motels along I35.
I call them the "Indians".

You can also check booking.com and best do it from a linux browser, not
mac, as the rates may change.


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Tobias Leich <email at froggs.de> wrote:

>  I'm not sure if I make a mistake or not, but I booked a room for less
> then 60USD right now...
>
> Here:
> http://www.qualityinn.com/ires/en-US/html/RoomAvailability?hotel=TX787
> Found it via: http://www.choicehotels.com/
>
> Cheers, Tobias
>
> PS: and please tell me if I should cancel it because it is a fake and one
> has to sleep under a tunnel or so...
>
>
> Am 11.04.2013 19:45, schrieb Matthew Wilson:
>
> Hi Patrick & Uri,
>
>  Through some experimentation just now, I discovered that a minimum of 7
> night stay is required [at this time, anyway] for the $119-prepay rate to
> be displayed.  Since the room that I booked was for 7 nights, the rate
> showed up for me, and that's what I'd been searching afterward too. Here's
> what appeared not 5 minutes ago (see image attachment):
>
>  [image: Inline image 1]
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:11:36AM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
>> > On 04/11/2013 08:50 AM, Daniel Wright wrote:
>>  > >Nope.   According to the contract, that rate should be valid for any
>> number of nights between 5/31/13 and 6/8/13.   If you are booking on a date
>> outside of that range, they may charge you standard rack rate.
>> > >
>> >
>>  > i did the same for sun-sat. spoke to the hotel and also hilton
>> > reservations and no prepay or $119 deal was found. i still would
>> > like to see what page or something that matthew wilson saw with that
>> > deal.
>>
>>  This past weekend I did see the $119 rate available, but it was through
>> the standard "best available / advance purchase" rate and not through
>> the group code.  "Best available rate" was $139, advance purchase was
>> $119.
>>
>> It appears to me that Doubletree has now sold out of their $119-level
>> advance purchase rooms; when I looked for a reservation just now I see
>> that their best available (cancellable) rate is $159, advance purchase
>> (no cancellation) is $139, and the conference rate (cancellable) is $139.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
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