How to find a cheap hotel room

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@MikeTheBard

Call anyway.  Some of the website/hotel contracts won’t let us match prices, but if you tell me you’re looking at a rate of $64, I’m pretty likely to offer you $69.

So, I can waste $5, if I put in the extra effort… Huh?

@MikeTheBard

You do realize just how insulting that is, right? I don’t know what you do for a living, but would you appreciate it if I approached you as a customer and told you that I didn’t really care about how well you do your job, I just want a 40% discount or I’d go somewhere else?

I really don’t understand what your stake in this is. Unless you’re the hotel owner, why do you care that one customer pays X and another pays 40% less than X? And, if you’re the hotel owner, you voluntarily signed up with Expedia; you know that you’d have empty rooms if you didn’t have the people who signed up online.

So, No, I do not realize how insulting that is. This has nothing to do with “how well you do your job.” Your job’s wages and benefits do not vary with how little or much I spend on the hotel room. I’m the one who takes the risk (eg, no ability to cancel/reschedule, no “ocean view”), and I’m fine with it.