Online Travel Booking and Bidding Agencies - Booking through hotel webiste

I booked several rooms on a hotel website that were so cheap, I'm sure it's wrong. What are the chances that they don't honor this rate upon check-in? Has this ever happened to anyone? I check the rate now, and it's $260.00 more per night. I have a e-mail confirmation showing my discount rate. I paid $89.00. Your thoughts? Just wondering if it will be honored, or I'm in for a battle at check in. Thanks.

This has happened many times and there have been many threads about it on the respective hotel forums under FlyerTalk Miles. One of the most notable ones was the W Times Square in New York City had a $25 rate available on their website for several days. Thousands of room nights were booked at that rate and it was honored.

Unless the hotel catches it and notifies you otherwise, the rate will be honored. Just be sure to take your printout with you and consider yourself very lucky.

Care to let us know what hotel?

welcome eastcoast!
A good first question and a good answer from Sheryl. Sometimes these are mistakes and sometimes hotels have "specials" that seem unreal.If you've got your printout,you should be fine.

Thanks for your thoughts. I'll keep my fingers crossed and my mouth shut and hope it goes through. I have 1/2 year until I go. I'll let you know what hotel after I return.
Again, thanks.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by eastcoast:
I booked several rooms on a hotel website that were so cheap, I'm sure it's wrong. What are the chances that they don't honor this rate upon check-in? Has this ever happened to anyone? I check the rate now, and it's $260.00 more per night. I have a e-mail confirmation showing my discount rate. I paid $89.00. Your thoughts? Just wondering if it will be honored, or I'm in for a battle at check in. Thanks.</font>

most times, hotels will honor the rate - it's better to have customer loyalty than it is to have a few hundred bucks in the longterm. just make sure that you are booked a rate that isn't a qualified rate - meaning that you didn't book a AAA rate and not have the membership card available or somehow accidentally booked the employee rate and you're not an employee - hotels, like airlines, have rate rules often times - be sure you're aware of them.