Originally Posted by
iluvdoco
Hey all, I'm completely new to LNF and would like to make a booking at the JW Marriott South Beach in Singapore from Jan. 14-17. However, all the 3rd party sites that I've checked (trivago, hotels.com, etc..) are showing rates comparable to or higher than Marriott's rates. What am I doing wrong?
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!!
IMHO, the one thing you may doing wrong is assuming that every hotel can be gotten on LNF on every date and at every time you check.
In my experience when just looking to get
any hotel in a given area on an LNF, it's very rare for
every hotel in that area to be available on LNF. Usually it's just a small subset of hotels in a given area that have LNFable rates. (Basically, it's those hotels whose managers decided to put up a lower rate somewhere else. Far from every hotel decides that for every date.)
And that's the other thing. A given hotel may only have LNFable rates on certain dates, nowhere near every day of the year. And also, those LNFable rates may only be there for short windows of time, maybe close in, maybe far out (in terms of booking time).
And all that is on top of the fact that the LNFable rates, when they do exist, may only exist on relatively obscure booking sites, precisely because the hotel doesn't want those rates to be lLNF'd (because then it gets less money).