Hotel Booking Discount

Anyone got some ways to get some discounts on hotel booking? Looking for hotels on Bali.

Booking.com is loaded with discounts on hotels all over the world. Am I missing something with your question?

Ok so I went last month for a few weeks to Thailand and I saved a lot of money by using my own brain. But I want to share it with you! I stayed in the most expensive hotels in Bangkok for 50% off (Anantara Sathorn, 38th floor, 120 sqm room, free drinks and food for just 45$)

There are 2 methods.

1. Book in advance on the site of a large Hotel company. Most times you can save up to 60%! You need to book at least 3 months in advance. And if they don't offer discount just call them or email them if there is discount available when you stay longer. My stay in the Anantara Bangkok hotel was normally 180$/night but I got it for 45$/night

2. Look on Booking.com for rooms. Be sure not to book in advance with this method!!!! This is absolutely last minute booking but it works 9/10 times. In Bali it should be quite the same as Thailand. I stayed in Villa's for the price of bungalows. Now here is the trick. Room owners who advertise on Booking.com need to pay at least 15% fee to Booking.com. If they want to become secret deal or whatever they pay up to 30% fee. I hope you get it by now... find a villa/bungalow from a small owner or company (Hilton or similar won't work for sure - haven't tested it but ok). In Thailand the dude had like 5 villa's but 1 was still available for the next 3 days, secret deal, 3rd listed on the page, etc. he was at least paying 20% fee over $600 total (atm I was with a few friends, but for smaller rooms this will work too). That's 0,2x600=120$. So I looked up the phone number from the company with the villas. Called them, I said we book the room for 520$. (He earned 40$ more then when I would book this via booking.com and I was saving 80$). He accepted immediately.
Some hotel owners won't accept at once but they will call you back with offers. If they are really desperate just say no and they will call again with a better offer.

Sorry for the long post but don't want to re-read and delete useless stuff

Nice tricks thanks! Second method I did already, and it work. Will try first one

I booked one at Jambaran, Bali for December just this week.

1. What I did was look it up first on booking dot com.
2. Next after I zeroed down on the hotel, I searched for it on Google and on the right hand side on Google itself inserted dates. (As seen on image below)

3. Google listed all providers and surprisingly, Expedia had a better rate for those dates in December(Above is for Nov.) than booking dot com.
I immediately booked it via Expedia and it was considerably low price. Add to that we had enough points on our travel rewards card and I paid just 100$ for 7 nights.

if youre travelling you could also look into packages to purchase a hotel/transportation with your flight

may not be the biggest deal but the ease of getting there could be a huge relief

Bali? Here you go, sorted by price:

https://www.traveloka.com/en/hotel/search?spec=1-11-2016.2-11-2016.1.1.HOTEL_GEO.102746.Bali,%20Indonesia

Note: you need to know the difference between a hostel (one room multiple bed, you pay per bed, that's why it's cheap, it's for backpackers) ... and a hotel (only you sleep in a room).

But even for one room per guest, and king size bed ... the price start from $6/night for cheapest rate. They're pretty decent.

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neroazzurro said:

Anyone got some ways to get some discounts on hotel booking? Looking for hotels on Bali.

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