Read an article from a travel blogger who always make use of the Best Price Guarantees from hotel booking engines and get cheap or even free stays. I tried to do the same for my upcoming trip to Vietnam. It looks hard doing it for the first time, but once you get the trick, you can't resist the temptation of doing it all the time to get the best deals in town.
What is a Best Rate Guarantee (BRG)?
Travel providers guarantee having the cheapest rate available for your hotel stay and provide some type of compensation if they don’t.
For the Orbitz website I am using, it
- matches the lower rate I found in other websites
- compensates with USD50/ claim
Many high ended hotels do the same but usually for me, my only concern is the cleanness of the hotels with convenient locations and reasonably low prices. Therefore, this gives me a good chance to save the cost of accommodation booking hotels at around USD50 using BRG with Orbitz.