Specific Price Monitoring

albatross710

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Is there an online comparison site that will give an update when a hotel price drops? I have a specific Las Vegas hotel for a specific set of dates that I want to book for September this year. Still 8 months away.

I know that between now and 30 June there will be a hotel website somewhere that will run some promotion. I don't want to have to manually search each day.

I'm thinking I will build it via the Amadeus API if it doesn't already exist.
 
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Is there an online comparison site that will give an update when a hotel price drops?
None that I know of ... Hotels don't like it and will endeavour to stop such.

@trippin_the_rift tried a relatively sophisticated one with Hilton. (Notice the recaptcha these days.)

Checking regularly yourself is the only advice I can give ...
 
As it doesn't seem to be a thing I pushed ahead with developing my own

I have a Amadeus developer API so I'm working from this API Connect to Amadeus travel APIs | Amadeus for Developers and specifically /shopping/hotel-offers

I've got the 8 digit IDs for the hotel I'm looking for. I can ping it and process the result to my little database.

The prices don't look that exciting but for the purpose it can indicate a price level change if they have released new inventory which I can then search in other engines and actually book.

work in progress.

The API give 2,000 calls for free per month.

If anyone is interested a response looks like this :

{
"data": [
{
"type": "hotel-offers",
"hotel": {
"type": "hotel",
"hotelId": "HRLAS734",
"chainCode": "HR",
"dupeId": "700007405",
"name": "FLAMINGO LAS VEGAS",
"cityCode": "LAS",
"latitude": 36.11594,
"longitude": -115.16986
},
"available": true,
"offers": [
{
"id": "xx_xx_xx",
"checkInDate": "2024-10-22",
"checkOutDate": "2024-10-27",
"rateCode": "AAA",
"rateFamilyEstimated": {
"code": "AAA",
"type": "C"
},
"category": "PRO",
"commission": {
"percentage": "10.0"
},
"room": {
"type": "C1K",
"typeEstimated": {
"category": "DELUXE_ROOM",
"beds": 1,
"bedType": "KING"
},
"description": {
"text": "AAA -CAA MEMBER RATE \nGo Deluxe 1 King or 2 Queens pillowtop mattress Premium Sound \nsystem with IPod station TV built into the vanity mirror in \nbathroom Glass walled shower with body jets in bathroom ",
"lang": "EN"
}
},
"guests": {
"adults": 1
},
"price": {
"currency": "USD",
"total": "5146.95",
"variations": {
"average": {
"base": "899.10"
},
"changes": [
{
"startDate": "2024-10-22",
"endDate": "2024-10-27",
"base": "899.10"
}
]
}
},
"policies": {
"cancellations": [
{
"numberOfNights": 1,
"deadline": "2024-10-19T00:00:00-07:00"
}
],
"deposit": {
"deadline": "2024-01-31T00:00:00",
"acceptedPayments": {
"creditCards": [
"AX",
"DC",
"DS",
"JC",
"CA",
"VI"
],
"methods": [
"CREDIT_CARD"
]
}
},
"paymentType": "deposit"
},
"self": ""
}
],
"self": ""
}
]
}
 

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