Timeline for Booked a room 5 months ago, now hotel lowers the price, what can I do?
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| Mar 8, 2016 at 9:33 | vote | accept | Wojtek | ||
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| Mar 5, 2016 at 21:01 | comment | added | DJClayworth | This may well be ordinary everyday lying (also called advertizing) or it may be '3 rooms left at this price'. Once those 3 have sold, three more might be made available. | |
| Mar 5, 2016 at 14:15 | comment | added | Caleb | I agree with this on principle —and the previous commentor noting these clazy fluctuations can be currency issues— but there is one piece of information this answer doesn't cover and that is the "three rooms left" advertising. I've run into a number of hotels doing this and it's fundamentally dishonest. I would likely bring this up in any discussion with the hotel asking for their good will in offering me the current price. | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 21:45 | comment | added | reirab | @user568458 Yeah, that's a good point. Even more widely-used currencies like the USD, EUR, and GBP can vary against each other by that much over the space of half a year sometimes (such as happened last year, for example.) | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 16:55 | comment | added | JBentley | @user568458 Yes, that is a good possible explanation. | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 16:54 | comment | added | user56reinstatemonica8 | @JBentley it's possible that the messy numbers are related to currency fluctuations. Maybe the original price in whatever the hotel uses as its base currency stayed the same, but the price online and booking were in another currency for customer convenience, and the relative value has changed. Assuming their base currency is Cuban pesos, there have been some pretty big fluctuations in the last 6 months. | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 16:49 | comment | added | JBentley | This is a good answer insofar as the lowered price goes. But the Hotel are being dishonest about the discount (assuming the OP has interpreted everything correctly). ($2800 / 0.9) * 0.85 = $2644 is what the price should be with a 15% discount, not $2000 as reported by the OP. I don't know what the rules are in Cuba, but in Europe where I'm from, it is unlawful for a business to lie about a discount. It could be possible to argue based on $2000 with a 15% discount that the price with a 10% discount should have been ($2000 / 0.85) * 0.9 = $2117. | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 17:39 | history | answered | DJClayworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |