Do you rush to make your hotel room booking in a haste!!! and if you had been doing the same for a while. Its the time now to change the habit and follow the rules mentioned below.
We will take you through the best practices of room booking to follow. We recommend not only to learn from this article and also spread the news so that your kids, parents, friends, relative, neighbours and social media followers learn from you and they also dont make the mistake again.
Lets take a quick example: How to book hotel room near chennai airport at the best price
Lets assume your company had asked you to rush to chennai the next day to meet the important business client meeting and you packed yourself to chennai but forgot to make a hotel booking assuming you can search it at the destination, in this case it is chennai - The destination. Now, lets see how you can go about your hotel room search.
Rely not on the Travel Sites: Travel sites are always costlier but you are not aware of?
Do you know the hotels pay these travel sites commissions ranging from 15% to 25%. Where do you think the hoteliers will load these commisions - Yes it is on your room rate. Hoteliers jack up there rate on OTA's (Online Travel Agencies) to account for the commissions they pay to OTA's. However you can book through OTA's when you have any special / exclusive coupon discounts which can bring down your room rate. Again be watchful here and decide after you have checked the below options.
Meta's: Come to your rescue
Meta is not the new facebook. In the hotel industry parlance, Meta's are called Meta Search Engine. To name a popular ones, Google, Tripadvisor, Trivago, Kayak and Hotels combined. Meta's will provide you a list of prices for the particular hotel you are looking for. It will show the prices in different OTA's and hotel direct pricing through the hotel website, if the hotel has connected their "Direct Price" in Meta's. Most established tech-driven are connected with Meta's. So, Meta's provide you an easy guide to check upon all the pricing in all platforms. On top of pricing transparency, Meta's provide you insights about the review. Trip Advisor's reviews are most logical conidering the details it possess.
Google Maps: You got to love this feature
Google is already integrated into our life. How can we better use the integration to help us choose the best hotel at your required pricing. Lets get back to our example: you are looking to book hotel / lodging room near chennai airport. Instead of looking at travel sites and meta's - looking at google map is a wiser choice. Google Maps shows pricing, distance from your current location, cab fares to and fro from the destination, reviews, google meta pricing, hotel website pricing. Google maps are the new all in one place tool.
In the above google map, it is upto you to choose your ideal hotel. If you notice the hotel on the main road are on the costlier side. However if you are ready to travel extra 400 metres you will find a hotel less than half the pricing of main road hotel. Pricing is not the only criteria to choose the hotel. I would say service quality, amenities, room quality and more importantly staff behaviour on top of the best pricing are key points to decide the hotel. In this case the meta rating on the criteria either matches or better than the main road hotels.
Hotel Website: They too have coupons
Though you could check upon the hotel direct website pricing on Meta's. Nevertheless if you still get into the website, you could be surprised by the coupon deals that the hotel run on their website. Most of the established chain hotel and tech driven hotels do this to hold their direct customer base. So after deciding the the hotel from google maps, please check the hotel website for the best deals.
Ring up the hotel: For Last minute deals
As you search for hotels for best deals, the hotels are also looking to sell out the last few inventories. Hotel rooms are highly perishable, what is perishable is time. Time lost is money lost for them. So, you could ring up the hotel and get the best price.
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