Originally Posted by
ChocolateFactory
So you’re thinking Marriott is always more expensive than other ways of booking, but they’re still offering a best-rate guarantee? What would be the point?
I was thinking that given all the success stories here it would be easy!
Originally Posted by
YoungBubbie
Nothing.
Its just getting harder to find sites that are lower. You have to find more obscure sites, keep checking, apps are sometimes lower, and don’t give up.
OK, thanks! I'll keep plugging away.
Originally Posted by
sdsearch
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).
Thanks
sdsearch. Indeed I was naively thinking that every hotel had rates that were easily LNFable.