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Old May 26, 2019 | 3:09 pm
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Originally Posted by SanDiego1K
I am wondering the same thing. I swore by Hotel Hustle and found a lot of hotels I would not otherwise have known about. But it is completely down. What are folks using to look across all the programs to see what hotels are in a specific area?
Yeah, what's with these hotel award tools being sucky? I guess there are no commissions on award stays so you can't monetize it? And ads don't pay the bills?

Obviously, a metasearch function for award stays is very useful to a lot of us. Hotel Hustle was decent for awhile, got slow and buggy, and now doesn't seem to work. Award Mapper was less useful but still valuable until it stopped being updated.

I just tried Awardomatic and it's kind of like Award Mapper (good, but not great). Is it at least being updated? Sadly, it doesn't include some of the "lesser" programs, like Choice, which is a shame because it's in the weird places (where Choice often has properties) that I find this type of search most useful.

BTW, it's a shame that this thread is buried in a forum that probably doesn't get a lot of eyeballs. I had to search to find it, but it's obviously an important issue for many flyertalkers.
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