Re-Booking Previously Booked Hotels

[JohnK]

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.

 

[love_the_life]

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.

I think it’s much easier to do when booking through a third party like Booking. Com or similar.

 

[JohnK]

I think it’s much easier to do when booking through a third party like Booking. Com or similar.

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.

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. I can then alter plans at the last minute and only forfeit one night. Hotel reception/housekeeping doesn't like my trick as they think I'm checking out each day but I don't care. I'll do what's best for me not them.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

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.

I will do this for maybe the first and last night of a longer booking if I haven't finalised my travel plans. Provides flexibility but can also lock in a low non-refundable rate for the confirmed stay in the middle nights.

 

[drron]

I do this all the time with my hotel bookings.

 

[Zulu0929]

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.

The Cookie monster!!!!!

 

[Renato1]

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.

The Cookie monster!!!!!

Interesting, thanks.

Oddly enough, I posted on the Amex forum some months ago how on the Amex travel site with certain browsers I kept getting high prices on hotels, but got discounted prices when I used a different browser - which others said was a cookie issue.
Regards,
Renato