"Rik Brown" wrote in message
news:Rik.Brown.2zkdw0@no-mx.forums.travel.com...
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> There is nothing at all disreputable in the situation that you stated.
> Sometimes a reseller has a higher rate, sometimes a lower rate. But
> there is no reason that they should have the same rate (not to mention
> that rates can change throughout the day) unless it is truly the same
> rate in every single aspect of its legal restrictions.
>
> Often, a hotel will reserve the best rate for its own website and that
> rate may not be available elsewhere -- including the hotel's own phone
> reservation center. Also, that rate may be advertised on the hotel's
> website and not even available for the date shown and the only way to
> confirm that the rate is available is to first give them your credit
> card to charge you for the booking.
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> That's why I always suggest that people shop around and then lastly
> check the hotel's website for comparison before making any reservation.
The biggest problem here is in finding the hotels website.
If it isn't guessable, googling for it is useless as, as soon as
google recognises that you are looking for a hotel, it moves
3000 hotel booking sites, that have paid for placement, to the
top of the list and the actual hotel website is somewhere on
page 238 (if you are lucky).
tim
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