I think it’s much easier to do when booking through a third party like Booking. Com or similar.I've done it once or twice but not often as I don't stay that long and not all hotels/websites have fully refundable bookings.
Understood but you would need to choose the refundable rate. In some of the hotels I stay the difference between non-refundable and refundable is $15/night for a $40/night hotel so over 8 nights that's a lot of money.I think it’s much easier to do when booking through a third party like Booking. Com or similar.
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And the other neat little trick I have is to book single nights where there is no discount for a 3-4-5 night booking.
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Interesting, thanks.My comment is not entirely in line with the thinking above and I have not seen reference to this elsewhere, but late last year I was returning from Europe and a couple of weeks before I needed the hotel, I started checking prices in Dubai.
The first rate was around $250 per night and I continued to check rates each 2 to 3 days and on each occasion, the rate was higher to the point that by my 4th check, the room rate was around $85 per night higher.
I was working from my laptop at the time, I deleted my browsing history and checked again. The rate was back to the level when I first checked.
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