Booking Hotels? Just a point.

[The Old Geezer 0]

If youre doing your hotel booking via any of the online agencies please ensure you check if the price includes all the taxes as the prices can be very deceptive.

[Guest oldone]

Yes add 17% to the overall cost and also watch Agoda in their pricing ! my advice look at the cost of the room per night add your 17% to it and you will find Agoda is always 30 or so bht more expensive. I have tackled them in the past once they waffled about different exchange rates and so on the last time they gave me a monitory refund as a good will gesture. All I will say is that aprt from this I have never had any problems with them.

Edited January 15, 2017 by oldone

[bastos60 2]

Another Agoda issue : The discounts they seem to offer are almost always non existing.

 

Just checked the prices for Areca Lodge rooms and Agoda seems to quote high season christmas prices and offers a reduction in price that equals the low season prices that the hotel offers directly on their website.

 

Very dubous.

[bigbadbaz 69]

I hate Agoda with all the tax bollocks, a mate always uses them but I always get cheaper.

 

I tend to use Hotel. Com which seems the most competitive plus you get a free night for every 10 so it makes it 10% cheaper overall. You have to have had the 10 nights before you claim the freebie but having had 2 decent holidays last year and booking another mates rooms I will get 5 free nights this time round

[JONPAT 222]

I too use mostly hotels. com to book; I've two free nights recently. The nights are sort of an average of the cost of the ten nights booking it takes to recieve a 'free' night. One night was 1170 baht towards a room and the other free night was 1751 baht towards a nights booking.