Originally Posted by
fordan
You'd need to click though the Kayak link and see what the underlying travel site is offering; Kayak is a consolidator of travel sites, not a travel site itself. It needs to match up in all particulars (refundable vs nonrefundable, bed size, room type, breakfast included, etc).
Furthermore it actually has to
exist at the underlying site! I've seen numerous cases where Kayak was showing a great rate only to find that no such rate existed (any more?) at the site that Kayak claimed to have found it at.
I've even had cases where I've come back to Kayak a day or two later, and still have seen such bogus "stale" rates that don't actually exist at any underlying site.