If you
happen to see a great deal on a
hotel booking site, such as
hotels.com, it is likely that that
hotel booking site gave you the
hotel deal not because it is such a
special site, but because it has
better relations with that hotel
than other websites. I'll give you
guys an example...
Magnolia Hotel, the first extended
stay hotels omaha you see in the
search results of hotels.com for the
Omaha area, at the time this article
was written, has a deal for $104.30
per night for a stay between May
19th and May 21st. Orbitz had the
second lowest price, $139.69,
clearly a lot more than what
hotels.com has. I called the
Magnolia and was quotes a really
high price, $159. I kindly asked,
"Is that the lowest you can go?" I
mentioned to her that I've been
browsing online. Knowing that that
$159 price is much higher than
anything online, she tells me: "Yes,
we can match any price online". She
gives me a lower price, slightly
lower than the $159 price, which she
gets from the hotel website. I ask
her if she could go any lower.
She says yes, "we can match any
price online", a far cry away from
the original $159 and very different
from the time she told me that she
can only match the price on the
extended stay hotel suites own
website. I tell her that hotels.com
is offering $104 per night and she
offers to match the price. Clearly,
the hotel itself decides what the
deals will be and the websites
simply advertise these rates,
determined by extended stay inn. Who
ever has the better relationships
with hotels gets the better deals.
From the the research I've done so
far, hotels.com has the most offers
in their standard listings of hotels.
By standard I mean listings of
hotels only, not packages which
might include things such as a
hotel, flight, and/or rental car.
Rather than just looking for hotel
deals online, you can also try
calling the hotel itself. Often,
they will have special deals which
you can only get by calling them
directly. Regardless, if you are
booking a hotel in a popular area
and/or at a popular time, the
discounts you see online will likely
be the best you can get. In the end,
there is no "best" way to find a
extended stay hotels omaha. You can
get good deals both online and by
dealing with the hotels directly.
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