The price just doesn’t seem to fit
There are many ways to score a good deal when booking a hotel, but there’s a difference between legitimates discounts and up-front prices that just don’t seem right.
“If a price looks too good to be true, it probably is,” warns Leona Bowman, luxury travel blogger at Wandermust Family.
“If you are getting a five-star hotel at a two-star hotel price, it is worth doing some more investigating. Double-check that there aren’t any renovations or local building works that are affecting the property and are causing the price to drop.”
Cassandra Brooklyn, founder of the travel planning and group tour company EscapingNY, also recommends going some research on your own and taking a quick look at the price of other, similar hotels in that area to see if the charge seems reasonable. “If the hotel is much cheaper than surrounding hotels with similar amenities, there’s probably a reason that the hotel can’t charge higher, [such as] construction, paper-thin walls, bed bugs, or terrible service,” she adds.
