Tag: hotel

I love to save money on hotels as status is not that important as I like to stay at different chains.

Have you ever heard of a “out of order” rate for a hotel?

One time our Priceline reservation was for the wrong day but the manager gratiously offered a spare room (with just a sofa bed) – we were grateful, but I have never used this before.

I read about this on Reddit.

Apparently, a hotel can have a room or two with a minor problem like a broken TV, refrigerator, or a table. These rooms can’t be charged at full price and they aren’t in the hotel’s inventory of rooms. These are called “out of order” or dirty rate rooms. You’ll have to call the hotel directly to book these rooms.

Do any of my readers have any experience with these type of rooms?

Hotel costs are a major cost for frequent flyers – I don’t like to redeem a lot of hotel points as I find they are not a good value for many places.

I am a big Priceline fan but I have found a new website that uncovers price mistakes, low room rates and extreme hotel specials!

I consider around $100 a fair price for a room but this site uncovers gems at under $50 a night!

Some things about how the website works – they send email alerts but you can’t filter by region (so I get deals for Europe even though I live in Vancouver Island). Sometimes they even send one-day deals and that simply doesn’t work for me.

My favourite deal is when they posted the Four Seasons Vancouver at a rate of $160 – they seem to find all the great consolidator rates as well.

Here is a link to their website.