Hotel Prices Over the Top

[kikc69 45]

Looking on Agoda for the first two weeks of Feb and the prices are outrageous. An exampl is Page 10 hotel which is usually about $70 US (2100 baht per night).

 

Agoda is now booking it for $310 US that is 9300 baht per night. Many others way over the top. Chineese New Year I know but is it that crowded?

[MM 6,562]

The hotels seem to think so.

[kikc69 45]

How far is August Suites from everything?

[teelack 9,640]

How far is August Suites from everything?

 

Its in a great position and close to everything but is always more expensive than I want to pay.

[js007 795]

Looking on Agoda for the first two weeks of Feb and the prices are outrageous. An exampl is Page 10 hotel which is usually about $70 US (2100 baht per night).

 

Agoda is now booking it for $310 US that is 9300 baht per night. Many others way over the top. Chineese New Year I know but is it that crowded?

 

Maybe you should try some other booking sites or perhaps look into a guess house. You shouldn't have to pay that much. A few weeks ago I was browsing Agoda for some Pattaya hotels and noticed that the prices for some were simply absurd. Maybe the Agoda inventory is low? However it happens, if the prices are high, I'd just say no.

[short 215]

www.wotif.com

[Grandpollo 366]

I use Asiatravel.com (same idea as Agoda but they have local offices where you can talk to English speaking people) for all Bangkok bookings and right now they have 84 hotels for a two week stay in Pattaya (Feb 1-15_ for under 2,850 Baht (so under $100) and 19 for less than 1,321 Baht or US$45, e.g. less than RG costs, and even one available from as little as 722 Baht. So other than this one hotel which they do not list it doesn't seem impossible to find a bed for under $300 a night. Or $50 for that matter.

Edited January 18, 2013 by Grandpollo

[BigDUSA 71]

www.latestays.com

[teelack 9,640]

I have always prefered Sawadi.com or Expedia. Keep an eye on Expedia in that they run specials and you gan get some great voucher deals.

[kikc69 45]

Thanks for the info on the sites. I will stay at Sandy Spring for a few days and maybe look around. I have always liked Sandy Springs for the location so may just stay there the entire trip. I think the room is 1695 baht. ($57 US)

[Patna 3,802]

Thanks for the info on the sites. I will stay at Sandy Spring for a few days and maybe look around. I have always liked Sandy Springs for the location so may just stay there the entire trip. I think the room is 1695 baht. ($57 US)

The location is good and so is the pool. The reason I stopped staying there was the outrages prices they charged for wifi, hope they stopped doing that. Also didn't have in-room safe and breakfast for there\s no restaurant on the premises.

[Evil Penevil 7,628]

Looking on Agoda for the first two weeks of Feb and the prices are outrageous. An exampl is Page 10 hotel which is usually about $70 US (2100 baht per night).

 

Agoda is now booking it for $310 US that is 9300 baht per night. Many others way over the top. Chineese New Year I know but is it that crowded?

 

I read an explanation for the occasional extremely high price for some hotels on Agoda and other booking services. I can't vouch for its accuracy, but it did sound plausible.

 

It has to do with the contract the hotel signs with the agency. During periods of peak demand, when the hotel management knows from experience the hotel will be fully booked, it doesn't want to pay a commission to the booking site. However, the contract doesn't allow them to temporarily withdraw the listing and there's also a penalty for claiming the hotel is fully booked when it isn't. So to discourage customers from booking through Web sites, it raises the price of the rooms listed on Agoda and similar to such levels that rooms won't be booked electronically. Sort of like a go go that ups bar fines in high season to keep the girls in the bar.

 

The price for a room at Page 10 goes back to the $70 range on Agoda after the Chinese New Year.

 

Evil

[Grandpollo 366]

You can tell when this happens by examining the prices on the hotels' own web sites and when they are the same and the same terms that's exactly what's happening.

 

When they can't fill it the sites like Agoda, Asiahotels, Priceline etc., get wholesale prices to try to play the market.

[papillon 695]

I haven't pre booked a hotel room in Pattaya for the past 8 years. Just get a taxi to Pattaya and walk up to any hotel and you'll almost always get a room.

[jacko 8,815]

I haven't pre booked a hotel room in Pattaya for the past 8 years. Just get a taxi to Pattaya and walk up to any hotel and you'll almost always get a room.

Perhaps more to do with the time of year you arrive....try it on New Years Eve and maybe you would think it a bad idea.

Works great if the hotel the taxi drops you at works out..... but I found it best to have a reservation due to silly arrival times.

Edited January 22, 2013 by jacko

[rubinjames 2]

I haven't pre booked a hotel room in Pattaya for the past 8 years. Just get a taxi to Pattaya and walk up to any hotel and you'll almost always get a room.

Try it in peak season or when a golf convention comes to pattaya

[papillon 695]

No problem, I would find somewhere because I'm not fussy like many of you guys. Done it many times in high season, always find somewhere.

[teelack 9,640]

No problem, I would find somewhere because I'm not fussy like many of you guys. Done it many times in high season, always find somewhere.

 

The hotel that I stay at has given me a good deal for the next trip. I would however point out that I deal direct with the manager and I have learned that he is the only one that can do a deal. He workss the day shift and if you dont catch him you dont negotiate. I am fussy in that I know the sort of room that I want, a pool and lack of noise. I also want a bath and a safe in room. I guess that you can take pot luck but the quality and location of the room is important to me. By creating a 'credit rating' I can get away often not pyingg till leaving day or worst case split the bill in two. I think that I have given you some good reasons to think ahead. By the way, I now ALWAYS book direct with the hotel and have not used an agency for perhaps two years.